Samuel Sewall Rodman III


Samuel Sewall Rodman III is an American Episcopal bishop. On March 4, 2017, he was elected as the 12th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, and was consecrated on July 15, 2017 by his predecessor, Presiding Bishop Michael Bruce Curry. Prior to his consecration, he was served as Special Projects Officer in the Diocese of Massachusetts. Previously, he was a parish priest.

Education

Rodman attended public schools for 10 years, then transferred to South Kent School for his last two years of high school. In 1981, he graduated from Bates College with a B.A. in English; he later studied theology at Virginia Theological Seminary.