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Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod (born September 27, 1938 in Birmingham) was the Episcopal Bishop of Vermont from 1993 to 2001.
McLeod grew up in Birmingham. She earned a bachelor's degree in history at the University of Alabama and was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority. She married and raised five children in Birmingham while serving in the Junior League and as a member of St Luke's Episcopal Church in Mountain Brook.
McLeod enrolled in seminary at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1978 and graduated second in her class in 1980. She was ordained a priest later that year and joined St Timothy's Episcopal Church in Athens, Limestone County as Co-Rector. She took the same position at St John's Episcopal Church in Charleston, West Virginia in 1983.
On June 5, 1993 a special convention of the Episcopal Church elected McLeod to serve as the denomination's first female diocesan bishop, heading the Diocese of Vermont. She was consecrated by Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning on November 1 of that year.
References
- "Mary Adelia McLeod" (August 18, 2014) Wikipedia - accessed December 16, 2014