Bishop Wright to speak at 2019 Clergy Conference

Bishop Rob Wright

 The Rt. Rev. Robert C. Wright, 10th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, will be the keynote speaker at our 2019 Diocesan Clergy Conference May 6-8 at at Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, NC. 

Held annually, the conference is an opportunity for all clergy of the diocese to pray together with Bishop Adams and one another, sharing in fellowship and Sabbath time. 

(Diocesan clergy, register for the conference at this link)

Bishop Wright was elected in 2012 to serve the Diocese of Atlanta, which covers north and middle Georgia and embraces 110 worshiping communities. He had previously served as rector of St. Paul’s, Atlanta, and on the staff of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.

Since becoming bishop, Bishop Wright addressed the Georgia legislature about gun control, spoke up for Medicaid expansion and has been a vocal and active opponent of the death penalty in Georgia. In commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, he prayed with a City of Atlanta sanitation crew before taking an early morning shift on the back of a city garbage truck. In January 2015, he was named among the 100 Most Influential Georgians by GeorgiaTrend magazine.

Bishop Wright was born in a Roman Catholic orphanage in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was adopted at 9 months of age. After graduating high school, he served five years in the U.S. Navy. While attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., he worked as a child advocate for two mayors. He earned an M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary, and he has been awarded honorary doctor of divinity degrees by the Virginia seminary and Sewanee: The University of the South.

He is married to Beth-Sarah Wright, Ph.D., and they have a grown daughter and four school-age children. To see Bishop Wright's detailed biography, click here.

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