RSSThe Rt. Rev. Stacy F. Sauls (Ex Officio)
The Rt. Rev. Stacy F. Sauls is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Episcopal Church, a post he has held since September 2011.
As COO, Bishop Sauls oversees the staff of the Episcopal Church Center in New York City and elsewhere. He also coordinates the work of the Church’s mission, program, communications, and finance and administration duties, while assisting the Presiding Bishop in her role as Chief Executive Officer. He is an ex-officio member of the Episcopal Church Executive Council.
Bishop Sauls’ first career was in law. He is a graduate of Furman University in Greenville, SC, and the University of Virginia School of Law. He worked as a corporate lawyer, most notably with the law department of Delta Air Lines.
Bishop Sauls then attended and graduated from General Theological Seminary in New York, and was ordained a priest in 1989 at St. George’s Church in Griffin, GA (Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta). He continued his parish ministry at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Atlanta and St. Thomas’ Church, Savannah, GA (Episcopal Diocese of Georgia). He was elected the Sixth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington in 2000.
Bishop Sauls is a past member of the Episcopal Church Executive Council and currently serves on the Standing Commission on World Mission, the Budgetary Funding Task Force and the Joint Committee on the Philippines Covenant, of which he is co-chair. He is also active with mission projects in Japan.
He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the District of Columbia Bar, and the Ecclesiastical Law Society (United Kingdom).
General Theological Seminary presented him with a DD honoris causa in 2001, as did the University of the South in 2002, where he serves as a trustee. He earned a Master's degree in Canon Law from Cardiff University in 2009.
Bishop Sauls and his wife Ginger, a special education teacher, are the parents of two adult sons.
