Bishop Search Timeline

The Standing Committee has announced the membership of the Search and Transition Committees. Read the announcement here.

Location: Solomon Episcopal Conference Center, Loranger

The Search & Nominating Committee for the next Bishop of Louisiana wants to hear from you! Our diocesan profile needs to articulate who we are as a diocese and where God is calling us to go. We will share this profile with the wider Church and prospective bishop candidates. Your input is an important part of assembling the profile.

At the conclusion of the clergy gathering on August 19, the Rev. Rob Courtney will host an optional 90-minute clergy listening session for participants to express their perspectives and opinions pertaining to the search for a new bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana.

The Listening Sessions have come to a close. Thank you to all who participated. Your voice helped us shape our diocesan profile and articulate who we are as a diocese and where God is calling us to go. The profile will be shared with the wider Church and prospective bishop candidates starting November 7, 2021. 

More information about the Listening Session can be found here.

Search Committee gathers information that will inform the Diocesan Profile. Accomplished through polling and listening events and other means as needed.

The Search Committee presented the Diocesan Profile to Convention.

Diocesan Profile was published on November 8, The Search Committee began accepting names.  More information here.

Update: The nomination period closed on December 31.

The search has closed and no more names will be accepted for consideration.

Standing Committee announced the slate on April 1 and opened the one-week Petition Process (Closed on April 8)

Our Petition Process concluded on Friday, April 8, and no additional applications for bishop were received. 

Watch videos of the candidates answering questions submitted from around the diocese.

1st Walkabout Listening Session
Monday, April 25, 2022
Episcopal School of Baton Rouge

2nd Walkabout Listening Session
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
St. Martin’s Episcopal School, Metairie

The Electing Convention was held at Christ Church Cathedral on May 14, 2022. The Rev. Canon Shannon Duckworth was elected 12th bishop of Louisiana on the first ballot. Watch her acceptance speech here.

More information about the Electing Convention at Christ Church Cathedral can be found here.

The 120-day Consent Process begins following the election.

A Farewell Celebration for the Rt. Rev. Morris and Mrs. Rebecca Thompson will be held on Friday, October 28 at Episcopal School of Baton Rouge. 

Click here to learn more and to RSVP.

The Ordination & Consecration of the Rev. Canon Shannon Rogers Duckworth as the 12th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana will be Saturday, November 19 at Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans.

Click here to see the full weekend schedule of events and to RSVP.