BISHOP EUGENE SUTTON

The Right Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton is Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and Senior Pastor of the Chautauqua Institution. Formerly the Bishop of the Diocese of Maryland and Canon Pastor of Washington National Cathedral, he has also served as a college chaplain, parish priest, and a professor of homiletics and liturgy at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.

 

Bishop Sutton is a frequent speaker on issues of spirituality, nonviolence, and racial reconciliation, and he has led numerous missions focused on peace and reconciliation to South Africa, Israel, and the Holy Land. He co-founded Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and Washington (COMW), an ecumenical network of those committed to the daily practice of centering prayer, and is a contributor to the books, The Diversity of Centering Prayer, and Reclaiming the Gospel of Peace: Challenging the Epidemic of Gun Violence.

 

His board memberships have included the Institute for Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies, the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Bishops United Against Gun Violence, and the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East. Bishop Sutton has been named by the Center for American Progress as one of “Fourteen Faith Leaders to Watch” for his faith-led efforts to promote nonviolent solutions to conflicts