Mary Gray Reeves

Mary GrayReeves became the first woman Episcopal diocesan bishop in California on November 10, 2007, when she was ordained and consecrated the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real at services in Saratoga. She had formerly been the archdeacon for deployment in the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida.

Mary GrayReeves was born in Coral Gables, Florida, in 1962 and grew up in the Miami neighborhood of Coconut Grove, where she attended St. Stephens Episcopal Church. After high school, she attended California State University, Fullerton, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1987. After her decision to seek holy orders, she and her husband, Michael Reeves, went to New Zealand because she could attend theological school at St Johns College, Auckland, while he could attend to his business which involved much travel in the western Pacific. In 1994 she graduated from St Johns and received the equivalent of the American Master of Divinity degree.

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