Bishops
Bishops of California
First dates listed are years of birth and death. Last dates are years in office. Coadjutor bishops assist, and then succeed, serving bishops at times of death or retirement. Suffragan bishops assist, but do not succeed, serving bishops, and are listed below, indented. Crosses + placed after dates means bishops died in office.
III. Edward Lambe Parsons
(1868-1960) (coadjutor 1919-1924) 1924-1940
IV. Karl Morgan Block
(1886-1958) (coadjutor 1938-1940) 1940-1958+ (died in Grace Cathedral)
Henry H. Shires
(1886-1961) suffragan 1950-1958
(1913-1969) (coadjutor 1958) 1958-1966
Richard Millard
(1914-2018) suffragan 1960-1975 (later Bishop of The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, 1979-1980)
VI. C. Kilmer Myers
(1916-1981) (coadjutor, Diocese of Michigan 1964-1966) 1967-1979
VII. William E. Swing
1936) (coadjutor 1979) 1981-2006
VIII. Marc Handley Andrus
(b. 1956) (suffragan, Diocese of Alabama 2002-2006) 2006-present
*Bishop Kip was consecrated and sent to California as a missionary bishop. He arrived in 1854 and was elected diocesan 1857.