Bishop Ian T. Douglas
The Rt. Rev’d Ian T. Douglas, Ph.D., served as the 15th Bishop Diocesan of The Episcopal Church in Connecticut from February 2010 until 2022. From 1989 to 2010, he was a faculty member at the Episcopal Divinity School, then located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was the Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity. In the Diocese of Massachusetts, Douglas served as Priest Associate at St. James’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge from 1989-2010, four-time Deputy to General Convention, and member of the Commission on Ministry. At the wider Episcopal Church level, he has been a member of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, Chair of the Standing Commission on World Mission, Convener of the Episcopal Seminary Consultation on Mission, and a founder of both Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation and Bishops United Against Gun Violence. He is currently Vice Chair of the Board of the Episcopal Coalition for Racial Equity and Justice. In the Anglican Communion, Douglas has been a member of the Anglican Consultative Council and the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion. He has also served on the Design Group for the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, and a member of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism. A sought-after speaker nationally and internationally, Douglas is the author/editor of five books and numerous academic and popular articles on the topics of mission, the missional church, postcolonial Anglicanism, and world Christianity. He has studied at Middlebury College (B.A.), the Harvard University Graduate School of Education (Ed.M.), and Harvard Divinity School (M.Div.). He holds a Ph.D. in missiology from Boston University. He lives on Martha’s Vineyard with his spouse, Kristin Harris, where they work as farm hands on their daughter’s pork and beef farm.
Bishop Mary Glasspool
The Rt. Rev’d Mary D. Glasspool served the Diocese of New York as Bishop Assistant from April 2016 until her retirement on June 30, 2025. Previously, she had been Bishop Suffragan of Los Angeles (elected December 2009, consecrated May 2010). She was born on Staten Island, raised in Goshen, NY, where her father, Douglas Murray Glasspool, served as rector of St. James’ Church until his death in 1989, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Magna cum Laude from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, in 1976. Bishop Mary earned her Master of Divinity from Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, in 1981; was ordained a deacon in June 1981 by Bishop Paul Moore, Jr. of New York; and in March 1982 was ordained a priest by Bishop Lyman Ogilby of Pennsylvania. From 1981 to 1984, she served as assistant to the rector and later as interim priest-in-charge of St. Paul’s Church, Philadelphia, and later moved to be rector of St. Luke’s and St. Margaret’s Church, Boston, where she remained until 1992. She then moved to the Diocese of Maryland, first as rector of St. Margaret’s Church in Annapolis (1992-2001) and then, until her election in 2009 as Bishop Suffragan of Los Angeles, as Canon to the Bishops in the Diocese of Maryland.