{{short description|American bishop}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = | honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend | name = Eugene Sutton | title = Bishop of Maryland | image = Bishop Eugene Sutton (6437765773) (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Sutton in 2011 | church = Episcopal Church | archdiocese = | province = III | metropolis = | diocese = Maryland | elected = June 29, 2008 | term = 2008–2024 | term_start = | quashed = | term_end = | predecessor = Robert W. Ihloff | opposed = | successor = Carrie Schofield-Broadbent | other_post = <!---------- Orders The Orders section may be omitted in favour of Template:Ordination for those clergy claiming Apostolic succession, such as Catholics, Orthodox and Anglicans. ----------> | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = June 28, 2008 | consecrated_by = Katharine Jefferts Schori <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|01|09}} | birth_place = Washington, D.C., US | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = <!-- as birth_place --> | buried = | religion = Anglican<br><small>''(prev. Baptist)''</small> | residence = | parents = | spouse = Sonya Subbayya Sutton | children = 4 | occupation = | profession = | previous_post = | education = | alma_mater = Hope College <br> Western Theological Seminary <br> Princeton Theological Seminary <br> Sewanee: The University of the South | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = <!---------- Other ----------> | other = }} '''Eugene Taylor Sutton''' (born January 9, 1954)<ref>''Episcopal Clerical Directory 2013'' (2013). New York: Church Publishing Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-89869-888-6}}, p. 936.</ref> is an American Episcopal clergyman who served as the 14th Episcopal Bishop of Maryland.
==Early life and education== Sutton grew up in Washington, D.C., in a Baptist family. In 1976 he graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He later earned a Master of Divinity degree from Western Theological Seminary in the same city and was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America. Sutton continued his graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, and after a few years joined the Episcopal Church, completing his Anglican ministry training in 1993 at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sustain.org/staff/rev-eugene-taylor-sutton/ |title=Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton |website=Institute for Sustainable Communities |accessdate=2020-12-26}}</ref>
==Career== Sutton served in parishes in New Jersey and Washington, D.C., and taught at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, the Vanderbilt University Divinity School and the General Theological Seminary.
On June 28, 2008, he was consecrated as Bishop of Maryland, having been elected at the previous diocesan convention on the first ballot. The consecration was held at the Washington National Cathedral, where Sutton had served as canon pastor. He became the first African American bishop for the Diocese of Maryland, and was installed in the Cathedral of the Incarnation on June 29, 2008.
On September 17, 2021, he announced his intention to retire in 2024.<ref>[https://episcopalmaryland.org/bishop-search/ Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Search for the Fifteenth Bishop of Maryland]. Retrieved 31 March 2023.</ref> He was succeeded by the Rt. Rev. Canon Carrie Schofield-Broadbent, who was elected bishop coadjutor in 2023.<ref name=ens>[https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2023/03/27/maryland-diocese-elects-carrie-schofield-broadbent-bishop-coadjutor/ Episcopal News Service, "Maryland diocese elects Carrie Schofield-Broadbent bishop coadjutor"], 27 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.</ref>
==See also== * List of Episcopal bishops of the United States * Historical list of the Episcopal bishops of the United States
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