Mary Douglas Glasspool is a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Background
Glasspool was born on February 23, 1954, in Staten Island Hospital, New York, to Douglas Murray Glasspool and Anne Dickinson. Later that year the Glasspool family moved to Goshen, New York, where her father served as rector of Saint James’ Church until his death in 1989.
Career
She entered the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1976 and was ordained a deacon in June 1981 and a priest in March 1982. In 1981, Glasspool became assistant to the rector at Saint Paul’s Church in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, where she served until 1984. Glasspool was elected a bishop suffragan on December 4, 2009, on the seventh ballot at the 115th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles in Riverside, California.
On March 17, 2010, the Presiding Bishop’ General’ s Office certified that her election had received the necessary consents and she was subsequently consecrated on May 15, 2010, in Long Beach, California.
In 2015, Glasspool accepted the invitation to serve the Episcopal Diocese of New York as an Assisting Bishop beginning in April 2016.