Mark D. W. Edington

He was elected bishop of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe on the eighth ballot on October 20, 2018 and consecrated at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris, France, on April 6, 2019. He is the twenty-sixth bishop of the convocation, but only the second elected one.

Following graduation, he accepted a position as senior administrator of the Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions, working with Diana L. Eck, David Carrasco, and Janet Gyatso. He served as well as a teaching fellow for Harvey Cox. In 2004, he took up an appointment as Associate Minister for Administration at The Memorial Church of Harvard University, serving until 2007. Edington returned to Harvard in 2009 as the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory at Harvard Kennedy School. In 2014, he took up an appointment as the founding director of the Amherst College Press, developing the press as a model for open access publishing. A vocal advocate for open access in scholarly communications, Edington has argued for a shift away from market-driven structures in academic publishing, and has argued for a system of disclosure making peer review processes transparent to readers.

Edington was ordained to the diaconate on May 27, 2000 by The Right Reverend M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, and to the priesthood by The Right Reverend Barbara C. Harris on May 26, 2001. He served as the first Epps Fellow and Chaplain to Harvard College in The Memorial Church from 2000 to 2007 under Peter J. Gomes. From 2007 to 2009 he was rector of Saint Dunstan's parish in Dover, Massachusetts, and from 2009 to 2019 served as priest, and later rector, of Saint John's Parish in Newtonville, Massachusetts.

Edington married Judith Hadden in 1983. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Cosmos Club and the Club of Odd Volumes.

Mark D. W. Edington (born March 15, 1961) is the bishop in charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe.