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Successor
  
incumbent

Consecration
  
September 18, 2004


Name
  
G. Taylor

Nationality
  
American

Ordination
  
April 13, 1994


Diocese
  
Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina

See
  
Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina

Other posts
  
Rector of St. Gregory Episcopal Church

Birth name
  
Granville Porter Taylor

Born
  
September 17, 1950 (age 73) Rock Hill, South Carolina (
1950-09-17
)

Residence
  
Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Books
  
To Dream as God Dreams: Sermons of Community, Conversion, and Hope, From Anger to Zion: An Alphabet of Faith

Education
  
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of South Carolina

Predecessor
  
Robert Hodges Johnson

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Granville Porter Taylor (born September 17, 1950) is the sixth and current Episcopal Bishop of Western North Carolina and is seated at the Cathedral of All Souls. In March 2015 he announced his intent to retire.

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Biography

Taylor was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina, but raised in Asheville, North Carolina. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972, followed by a Master of Arts in English from the University of South Carolina (1974) and a Ph.D. in Theology and Literature from Emory University (1983).

In 1993, he received a Master of Divinity from the University of the South, Sewanee and was ordained a deacon. He was ordained a priest on April 13, 1994, and served seven years as rector of St. Gregory the Great Church in Athens, Georgia.

He was consecrated as the fifth Bishop of the Diocese of Western North Carolina on September 18, 2004. The 999th bishop consecrated in the Episcopal Church, he was consecrated by Robert Hodges Johnson, Michael Curry, and J. Neil Alexander at the Asheville Civic Center.

He is the author of To Dream as God Dreams: Sermons of Hope, Conversion, and Community and From Anger to Zion: An Alphabet of Faith. He and his wife, Jo Abbott Taylor (a research nurse), married in 1972; they have two children, Arthur and Marie. Arthur achieved his graduate degree (Ph.D.) in psychology at New York University, and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and two children. Bishop Taylor's daughter, Marie, who spent a year at Randolph College (formally Randolph-Macon Women's College), transferred and graduated from Western Carolina University, with a B.S. in Anthropology, and is currently pursuing work in the Marine Sciences in Florida due to her significant work in marine sciences around the world.

References

G. Porter Taylor Wikipedia