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Rev. Douglas Elected diocesan bishop
The Rev. Dr. Ian T. Douglas was elected Oct. 24 as Connecticut's 15th diocesan bishop. He is currently the Angus Dun Professor of mission and
world Christianity at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass. and associate priest at St. James's Church, Cambridge, Mass.
The bishop-elect was one of the founding organizers of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation. He is a member of the Episcopal Church's
Executive Council, a member of the Anglican Communion's Consultative Council, and former volunteer in mission in Haiti.
Douglas was elected on the second ballot. Pending consents to the election by Standing Committeesthe Episcopal Church, as well as by Biships with
jurisdiction, he willconsecrated April, 2010, in Hartford.
The Rev. Dr. Ian T. Douglas is a passionate educator and activist for the worldwide mission of God. A recognized leader in The Episcopal Church
and the Anglican Communion, Professor Douglas is a member of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, member of the Design Group for the
2008 Lambeth Conference, and member-elect of the Anglican Consultative Council as a priest representing The Episcopal Church.
When not in the classroom at EDS, Professor Douglas travels extensively around the world pursuing activities dedicated to promoting reconciliation
in the Anglican Communion. He is widely published in missiology, the mission history of The Episcopal Church, and postcolonial perspectives on
Anglican ecclesiology. His most recent book is Understanding the Windsor Report: Two Leaders in the American Church Speak Across the
Divide, with Paul Zahl (Church Publishing). Professor Douglas is currently engaged as one of four co-editors of the ground-breaking worldwide
study: Oxford University Press Handbook of Anglican Studies. Dedicated to helping The Episcopal Church live faithfully into God's
mission through the Millennium Development Goals, Professor Douglas is co-founder and vice chair of the Board of Episcopalians for Global
Reconciliation. Sought after widely as a speaker and mission organizer, Professor Douglas has been quoted in almost every major syndicated
newspaper in the United States including The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los
Angeles Times, and The San Francisco Examiner, as well as appearing on The ABC Evening News, PBS Religion and Ethics
Newsweekly, CNN, and the BBC.
Education: BA, Middlebury College; EdM, Harvard Graduate School of Education; MDiv, Harvard Divinity School; PhD, Boston
University Graduate School.
Current positions: Member of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church; Clergy Member elect from The Episcopal Church to the Anglican
Consultative Council; Member of the Design Group for the 2008 Lambeth Conference; Convener of the Seminary Consultation on Mission
(SCOM); Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Anglican Studies; Member of the Advisory Committee for the College of Bishops;
EDS faculty, 1990-present.
Past positions: Consultant to the Presiding Bishop and House of Bishops; Member of the House of Bishops Theology Committee; Deputy to
General Convention 2000, 2003, 2006; Founding organizer of: Anglican Contextual Theologians Network, Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation,
Episcopal Church Foundation Fellows Forum, and Global Anglicanism Project; Secretary and Chair of the Standing Commission on World Mission
of General Convention; Associate for Overseas Leadership Development, The Episcopal Church Center; Volunteer for Mission, Episcopal Church
of Haiti; Member of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism.
Areas of interest and research: Missiology, studies in contemporary society, and globalization, the post-colonial Anglican Communion,
and American church history with special attention to the international work of the Episcopal Church, USA.
Why should we as Christians care about the MDG's? - A Paper Prepared by EDS faculty member Ian Douglas for the House of Bishops of the
Episcopal Church, Camp Allen, Texas, March, 2007
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