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Carlye J. Hughes

Carlye J. Hughes is the eleventh and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. She was ordained as a bishop on September 22, 2018.

The Right ReverendCarlye J. Hughes
Bishop of Newark
Episcopal Church
Newark
May 19, 2018
2018–present
Mark M. Beckwith
2005
September 22, 2018by Michael Curry
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
American
Anglican
David R. Smedley

Ordination history ofCarlye J. Hughes
HistoryPriestly ordinationDate2005Episcopal consecrationPrincipal consecratorMost Rev. Michael CurryCo-consecratorsDeDe Duncan-Probe, Scott Mayer, Barbara Harris, Mark M. Beckwith, Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, M. Blair Couch (Ecumenical Consecrator, Moravian Church) DateSeptember 22, 2018PlaceNew Jersey Performing Arts Center	2005	Most Rev. Michael Curry	DeDe Duncan-Probe, Scott Mayer, Barbara Harris, Mark M. Beckwith, Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, M. Blair Couch (Ecumenical Consecrator, Moravian Church)	September 22, 2018	New Jersey Performing Arts Center
2005
Most Rev. Michael Curry
DeDe Duncan-Probe, Scott Mayer, Barbara Harris, Mark M. Beckwith, Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, M. Blair Couch (Ecumenical Consecrator, Moravian Church)
September 22, 2018
New Jersey Performing Arts Center

Carlye J. Hughes is the eleventh and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. She was ordained as a bishop on September 22, 2018.

Hughes, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of Texas at Austin and worked as a corporate trainer for many years before attending seminary at the Virginia Theological Seminary, graduating in 2005. Hughes is currently a Doctor of Ministry student at the School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.

Hughes was ordained in 2005. She served in a Lilly Fellowship at St. James' Episcopal Church in New York City, followed by five years as rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Peekskill, New York. Trinity Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, Texas, called Hughes to serve as rector beginning in June 2013. Hughes is the first woman to serve as rector in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth and the first African-American priest to serve in that parish.

Hughes is married to David R. Smedley and is the daughter of Coach Robert Hughes, a longtime boys’ high school basketball coach and a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

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