Geralyn Wolf

Wolf falls on the mainstream to progressive side of Episcopal Church politics and in 2003 supported the consecration of gay bishop Gene Robinson. However, she defrocked the Episcopal priest Ann Holmes Redding on account of Redding's choice to embrace the Islamic faith while claiming to remain Christian.

Prior to her election she was, from 1986 to 1995, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville, Kentucky, the first woman dean of a cathedral. David Reed (bishop), Bishop of Kentucky, had named Wolf to replace Rev. Allen L. Bartlett Jr., who was elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Pennsylvania in September 1985.

Wolf was ordained to the diaconate in 1977, and the priesthood in 1978, in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.

Wolf is a native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and was raised Jewish before becoming a Christian around 1971. She graduated from West Chester University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in education from Trenton State College, which she received in 1971. At Episcopal Divinity School in 1977 she earned a Master of Divinity degree.

Geralyn Wolf (born April 30, 1947) is an American bishop who was the twelfth diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Rhode Island in the Episcopal Church. Wolf was consecrated as bishop on February 17, 1996.