# Mary Gray-Reeves
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type =
| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Mary Gray-Reeves
| honorific-suffix = M.Div.
| title = [Bishop of El Camino Real](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_El_Camino_Real)
| image = Mary Gray-Reeves (49071294442) (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Bishop Gray-Reeves in 2019
| church = [Episcopal Church](/source/Episcopal_Church_(United_States))
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| metropolis =
| diocese = [El Camino Real](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_El_Camino_Real)
| elected = 2007
| enthroned =
| term = 2007–2020
| predecessor = [Richard L. Shimpfky](/source/Richard_L._Shimpfky)
| opposed =
| successor = [Lucinda Ashby](/source/Lucinda_Ashby)
| ordination = 1994 ''(deacon)''
1995 ''(priest)''
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| consecration = November 10, 2007
| consecrated_by = [Katharine Jefferts Schori](/source/Katharine_Jefferts_Schori)
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|7|5|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [Coral Gables, Florida](/source/Coral_Gables%2C_Florida), [United States](/source/United_States)
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| nationality = [American](/source/Americans)
| religion = [Anglican](/source/Anglicanism)
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| spouse = Michael Reeves (d. 2014)
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'''Mary Gray-Reeves''' (born July 5, 1962) was the third bishop of the [Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_El_Camino_Real).[{{Cite web|url=https://www.realepiscopal.org/about-bishop-mary-gray-reeves/|title=About Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves {{!}} Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real|website=www.realepiscopal.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-08}}]
==Early life and education==
Mary Gray-Reeves was born in [Coral Gables, Florida](/source/Coral_Gables%2C_Florida), in 1962 and grew up in the Miami neighborhood of [Coconut Grove](/source/Coconut_Grove%2C_Florida), where she attended St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. After high school, she attended [California State University, Fullerton](/source/California_State_University%2C_Fullerton), from which she received a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) degree in history in 1987. After her decision to seek [holy orders](/source/holy_orders), she and her husband, Michael Reeves, went to [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand) because she could attend [theological school](/source/seminary) at [St John's College, Auckland](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Auckland), while he could attend to his business which involved much travel in the western [Pacific](/source/Pacific). In 1994 she graduated from St John's and received the equivalent of the American [Master of Divinity](/source/Master_of_Divinity) degree.[{{Cite web|url=http://www.diosef.org/gray_reeves.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123185401/http://www.diosef.org/gray_reeves.html|url-status=dead|title=Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida|archivedate=Nov 23, 2007|accessdate=Jun 1, 2021}}]
==Career==
After she and her husband returned to California, she was ordained [deacon](/source/deacon) and then [priest](/source/priest) in the [Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_Los_Angeles). After being assistant rector of two churches in that diocese, she and her husband returned to the Miami area where she became rector of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in [Miami Lakes](/source/Miami_Lakes%2C_Florida). After six years at St. Margaret's she was appointed archdeacon for deployment for the [Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_Southeast_Florida).[{{Cite web|url=http://www.wfn.org/2007/06/msg00134.html|title=wfn.org | [ELO] Mary Gray-Reeves elected as third bishop of Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real|accessdate=Jun 1, 2021}}] She was consecrated on November 10, 2007.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.realepiscopal.org/bishop-marys-page/|title=Bishop Mary's Page {{!}} Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real|website=www.realepiscopal.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-08}}]
At the 2008 meeting of the [Lambeth Conferences](/source/Lambeth_Conferences) of the [Anglican Communion](/source/Anglican_Communion), Bishops Mary Gray-Reeves of [El Camino Real](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_El_Camino_Real), [Michael Perham](/source/Michael_Perham_(bishop)) of [Gloucester](/source/Gloucester), and Gerard Mpango of Western Tanganyika formed a partnership of their dioceses. This successful companion diocese[{{Cite web|url=http://www.edecr.org/companion.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128091937/http://www.edecr.org/companion.html|url-status=dead|title=Companion Diocese|archivedate=Nov 28, 2011|accessdate=Jun 1, 2021}}] relationship has resulted in an annual round of visits between the bishops and delegations to each other's home countries and the 2011 book ''The Hospitality of God[{{Cite web|url=http://www.asaints.org/about-us/news/book-hospitality-god-bishop-mary-gray-reeves|title=''The Hospitality of God'' by Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves|accessdate=Jun 1, 2021}}]'' by Mary Gray-Reeves and Michael Perham. On 30 June 2010, the three bishops wrote a joint letter[{{Cite web |url=http://www.gloucester.anglican.org/viewArticle.php?articleid=351 |title=Joint letter to Rowan Williams |access-date=2011-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415075028/http://www.gloucester.anglican.org/viewArticle.php?articleid=351 |archive-date=2012-04-15 |url-status=dead }}] to [Rowan Williams](/source/Rowan_Williams), then [Archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Archbishop_of_Canterbury), about what they were learning. In 2010, Bishop Sadock Makaya succeeded Bishop Gerard Mpango in the partnership.
On March 15, 2018, Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves announced her intention to end her ministry as Bishop of El Camino Real on January 11, 2020.[{{Cite web|url=https://us3.campaign-archive.com/?u=99ebbaf4cee8d012c9edafe60&id=bcac501209|title=A message from Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves|website=us3.campaign-archive.com|accessdate=Jun 1, 2021}}]
==Family==
Mary Gray-Reeves and her late husband, Michael Reeves, have two children, Katherine and Dorian.