The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, PhD

Bishop, The Episcopal Church in Connecticut (retired)

Vineyard Haven, MA

The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas served as the 15th Bishop Diocesan of The Episcopal Church in Connecticut from 2010 to 2022. He was the Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at the Episcopal Divinity School, then located in Cambridge, MA, from 1989 to 2010, and served as Priest Associate at St. James’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge.

He worked as a Volunteer for Mission in the Episcopal Church of Haiti from 1983 to 1984. He has been a member of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church and Chair of the Standing Commission on World Mission. He was the founder of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation and co-founded and still serves as the Co-Convener of Bishops United Against Gun Violence. He is a member of the Constituting Group for Episcopal Church Coalition for Racial Equity and Justice.

In the Anglican Communion, Bishop Douglas has served as a member of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion, the Design Group for the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, and the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism.

A sought-after speaker nationally and internationally, he is the author/editor of four books and numerous academic and popular articles on the topics of mission, the missional Church, contemporary Anglicanism, and world Christianity.

He was elected to his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

He studied at Middlebury College (BA), the Harvard University Graduate School of Education (EdM), and Harvard Divinity School (MDiv). He holds a PhD in missiology from Boston University.