Name Susan Goff | ||
Church Episcopal Church (United States) Consecration 28 July 2012
by Katharine, 26th Presiding Bishop Diocese Episcopal Diocese of Virginia | ||
Susan Ellyn Goff is an American Anglican bishop. Since 2012, she has been the suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. She was consecrated as a bishop on July 28, 2012.
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Early life and education
Goff was educated at Douglass College, then a woman's liberal arts college in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She trained for ordination at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and achieved a distinction in her Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree.
Ordained ministry
Goff was ordained in 1980. She has spent all of her ordained ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.
On July 28, 2012, Goff was consecrated a bishop during a service at S. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. The chief consecrator was Katharine Jefferts Schori (the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church), and the co-consecrators included Shannon S. Johnston (the Bishop of Virginia).