Background
Wood was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
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Raymond Wood
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He graduated from Dartmouth College and Virginia Theological Seminary, as well as Ball State University with a master"s degree in counseling and sociology.
Career
He served the Diocese of Michigan from 1990 to 2000 as its ninth diocesan bishop. During this time, he served on various diocesan councils and standing committees, and was a deputy to General Convention from 1970 to 1976 and in 1982. He also directed a diocesan casework and counseling agency in Indianapolis.
Wood was elected on the fifth ballot during a special election held during the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan"s 1988 diocesan convention, held at the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in Detroit on May 7, 1988.
In late 1994, he received media attention for ordaining a lesbian, Jennifer Walters, as a priest at Church of the Incarnation in Pittsfield Township, Michigan. He took a public position against the hiring of "permanent replacements" by the Detroit newspapers during the Detroit Newspaper Strike.
He joined auxiliary Catholic bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Rabbi Irwin Gronor of Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Michigan, and Rabbi M. Robert Syme of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan in taking the position following a meeting the faith leaders held on August 15, 1995. On September 17, 2000, he delivered the Pentecost XIV sermon at the Washington National Cathedral.
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