Henry William Scriven
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The Rt. Rev. Henry William Scriven is the Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Born in England in 1951, Scriven was educated at Repton School in Derbyshire and later at the University of Sheffield. Scriven then studied at St. John's College in Nottingham. He was ordained in 1975. He served for four years in the Diocese of London followed by two years in the Diocese of Northern Argentina through the South American Missionary Society (SAMS).
With the onset of the Falklands War, Scriven and his family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas where Scriven served Christ Episcopal Church, Little Rock as Assistant Rector for Education from 1982 to 1983.
From 1984 to 1990, Scrivens continued with SAMS in Spain in the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church He then served for five years as Chaplain for the British Embassy Church in Madrid under the Diocese of Gibralter in Europe of the Church of England. In 1995 He was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop George Carey as Bishop Suffragan in Europe. He also served Edmond Browning as Assistant Bishop to the Convocation of American Churches in Europe in May of the same year.
In 2002, Scriven was called to the Diocese of Pittsburgh to serve as Assistant Bishop. Bishop Scriven is married to Catherine and has a daughter, Anna, and a son, Joel.
[edit] Consecrators
Bishop Scriven was the 980th bishop consecrated/received into the Episcopal Church.
[edit] See Also...
[edit] References
- Bishop's Page, Diocese of Pittsburgh website.
- The Episcopal Church Annual. Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).
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