MARIANN EDGAR BUDDE is the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and serves as president of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation. Prior to this, she served as rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. She earned her masters in divinity and doctor of ministry degrees from Virginia Theological Seminary. The author of Gathering the Fragments: Preaching as Spiritual Practice, her sermons have been published in books and journals.
The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry is the Episcopal Church's 27th Presiding Bishop. He was the Bishop of North Carolina from 2000 to 2015. Bishop Curry has a national preaching and teaching ministry and is a regular on TV and radio and a frequent speaker at conferences around the country. His books include Crazy Christians: A Call to Follow Jesus; Following the Way of Jesus: Church's Teachings for a Changing World; and Love Is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times.
Yoimel González Hernández was born in Cuba, where he developed a leadership as a lay person in the Presbyterian Church. He studied in the Seminario Evangélico de Teología, in Matanzas, where he graduated as Licenciado in 2005 and as a Master in 2019. He came to live in the United States in 2016, where be became Episcopalian. He graduated from the Anglican Studies Program in Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in 2019 and was ordained as a priest in the Diocese of Washington that same year. He works currently as an Associate Rector in St. Alban´s Episcopal Church, in DC and as a Dean of the Diocesan Latino Deacons´ School.
