Mariann Budde

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Mariann Edgar Budde (; née Edgar; born 1959) is an American Episcopal prelate who has served as Bishop of Washington since 2011. She is the first woman elected to the position of bishop in the diocese, although Bishop Jane Holmes Dixon was elected as suffragan bishop in the diocese in 1992 and served as Bishop Pro Tempore after Bishop Haines retired and before Bishop Chane -- Bishop Budde's predecessor -- was elected. Budde was ordained as a deacon in 1988 and as a priest in 1989. She served as rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1993 until she became the bishop of Washington in 2011. In 2017, she oversaw the removal of Washington National Cathedral's stained-glass windows honoring Confederate generals, which were replaced in 2023 with windows representing the civil rights movement. In 2018, she presided over the interment of the ashes of Matthew Shepard, a murdered gay man, at the cathedral. She delivered a benediction at the 2020 Democratic National...

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