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The Right Reverend Peter Eaton
The Right Reverend Peter Eaton has been the Bishop of Southeast Florida since 9 January 2016.
Bishop Eaton was elected the Bishop Coadjutor of Southeast Florida (the assistant bishop who succeeds the bishop on retirement) on 31 January 2015 at a special convention of the Diocese at Trinity Cathedral, Miami. He was ordained to the episcopate on 9 May 2015, and he became the Bishop of Southeast Florida on the retirement of the Right Reverend Leo Frade on 9 January 2016. Bishop Eaton was seated as the diocesan bishop at a special liturgy at Trinity Cathedral, Miami, on 30 January 2016. Lord Williams of Oystermouth, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, was the preacher.
Bishop Eaton was born on 28 August 1958 in Washington DC. A life-long Anglican, he is the son, grandson, and nephew of priests, and he has lived and served in three Provinces of the Anglican Communion. His father was the late Reverend Dr Wade Eaton, who taught at Codrington College, Barbados, and the Seminario Episcopal and the Seminario Evangélico in Puerto Rico. His grandfather was the late Senator Wayne Morse, who represented Oregon in the US Senate from 1944 to 1969, and his uncle was the late Right Reverend Francisco Reus-Froylán, the first native-born bishop of Puerto Rico. Raised in New England, Barbados, Puerto Rico, and London, he read Classics at King's College, London; Theology at Queens' College, Cambridge; and was trained for the priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge. Between university and theological college, he served for a year as the Pastoral Assistant at Saint George’s Anglican Church in Paris (France). He has twice been a Fellow-in-Residence at the School of Theology, Sewanee (1995 and 2014).
Bishop Eaton was ordained to the diaconate on the Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, 29 June 1986, by his uncle, Bishop Reus, at the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Santurce, PR, by Letters Dimissory from the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was ordained to the priesthood on the same feast in 1987 by the late Archbishop Robert Runcie in Canterbury Cathedral.
Bishop Eaton served as the Assistant Curate of the Parish of All Saints, Maidstone, Kent, UK, from 1986 to 1989; the Fellows' Chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford, UK, from 1989 to 1991, where he also did graduate research in early Christian history and literature; the Associate Rector of Saint Paul's, Salt Lake City, UT, from 1991 to 1995, where he was also Canon Theologian to the Bishop of Utah from 1991 to 2001; the Rector of Saint James, Lancaster, PA, from 1995 to 2001; and the Dean of Saint John's Cathedral, Denver, CO, from 2002 to 2015. In Denver he was also an adjunct faculty member of Iliff School of Theology from 1995 to 2015, where he taught Anglican theology and liturgy.
In 2004 he and Kate Gleason were married at Saint John's Cathedral. A fourth-generation Coloradoan and life-long Episcopalian, Kate is a resource development professional, and has worked for many organisations, including the University of Denver, Habitat for Humanity, Mercy Housing, and Food for the Poor. Currently, Kate is the Director of Individual Giving at the New World Symphony in Miami. She was part of the development team of the Wilderness at Saint John's Cathedral, Denver, in 2007, one of the most innovative and longest-lived new worshipping communities in the Church, and in 2010 she founded Mishkhah, an organization that seeks “to reveal the mystery of Christ by stirring the senses and opening the heart.” She has helped a number of congregations across the Church develop new communities.
Bishop Eaton has edited or contributed to several books, and has written numerous articles and book reviews.
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The Right Reverend James Duncan, Deceased
James Duncan was born on September 11, 1913, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He attended Emory University and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1935 and a Master of Arts in 1936. He studied theology at the University of the South and received a Bachelor of Divinity in 1939, and an honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1962. Duncan was ordained into the diaconate in July 1938, and to the priesthood in July 1939.
He served as curate of All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Ga, from 1939 - 1940, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Rome, Ga, from 1940-1945, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Winter Park, Fl, from 1945 - 1950, and he was rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in St. Petersburg, Fl, from 1950-1961.
Duncan was elected Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Florida in 1961. In 1969, he was elected the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida.
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The Right Reverend Calvin Schofield Jr.
Calvin Schofield Jr., was born on January 6, 1933, in Delhi, New York. He attended Hobart College and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1959. He studied theology at the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University and received a Master of Divinity in 1962. Schofield was ordained to the diaconate on June 30, 1962, and to the priesthood on December 31, 1962.
He served as curate of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in St. Petersburg, Fl, from 1962-1964, and vicar of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Miami, Fl, from 1964 -1979. Schofield was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida and was consecrated on March 23, 1979. On January 1, 1980, he became the second bishop of Southeast Florida.
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The Right Reverend Leo Frade
Leo Frade was born on October 10, 1943, in Havana, Cuba. He attended Candler College and received a B.L. in 1960. He studied theology at the University of the South and received a Master of Divinity in 1977. Frade was ordained to the diaconate on April 17, 1977, and to the priesthood on October 17, 1977.
He served as curate of Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Miami, Fl, from 1977-1978, and priest in charge of Hispanic ministries of Grace Episcopal Church, in New Orleans, La, from 1978-1982. Frade served as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Honduras from 1984-2000, and he was elected the third Bishop of Southeast Florida on May 6, 2000. On September 16, 2000, he was enthroned.
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The Right Reverend John Said, Deceased
John Said was born in Marion, Indiana in 1932. He attended Wabash College and Yale Divinity School. Said was ordained deacon in 1958, and to the priesthood in 1959. He served parishes in Indiana and Florida and served as a missionary in Brazil from 1966 - 1969. In 1984 he became the rector of St. Kevin's Church in Miami, Fl, and in 1987 he joined the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. He also served as bishop in residence at the Church of the Nativity in Port St. Lucia, Fl.
Said was elected Suffragan Bishop of Southeast Florida on October 29, 1994, and he was consecrated to the episcopate on February 25, 1995.
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The Right Reverend James Ottley
James Ottley was born in Colon, Panama. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Caribbean and was ordained to the priesthood in 1964.
Ottley was consecrated bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Panama on January 21, 1984, and he was there until 1995. Simultaneously, he served as the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of El Salvador from 1985-1992. In 2000, Ottley became Interim Bishop of the Diocese of Honduras. He also served as Interim Bishop of the Diocese of Cuernavaca of the Anglican Church of Mexico.
From 2003 - 2007 Ottley was the Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese in Southeast Florida.