The
Rt. Rev. David Colin Jones was ordained Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of
Virginia on June 24, 1995, at the Washington National Cathedral.
Bishop Jones is the 907th bishop ordained in succession to Samuel Seabury,
the first bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
The Diocese of Virginia, one of the oldest dioceses in the Episcopal Church, includes 38 counties in the central and northern regions of the Commonwealth and has more than 90,000 baptized members in 192 congregations served by over 400 clergy.
David Jones was born on June 20, 1943, in Youngstown, Ohio,
and grew up in West Virginia. He earned an A.B. in history from West
Virginia University in 1965, a M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary in
1968, and a D.Min. from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1991. In 1996, he
was awarded an honorary doctorate from Virginia Theological Seminary. The
Rt. Rev. Wilburn C. Campbell, a former Bishop of West Virginia, ordained
Bishop Jones to the diaconate and to the priesthood in 1968.
Bishop Jones began his ordained ministry as Vicar of St. James' Church in
Lewisburg, West Virginia, in 1968. He served that congregation until 1972,
when he accepted a call to become Rector of St. Stephen's in Beckley, West
Virginia. In 1978, he came to the Diocese of Virginia to become Rector of
Church of the Good Shepherd in Burke, where he served until his election as
Bishop Suffragan on January 27, 1995.
He has served the Diocese of Virginia in a number of leadership roles: as
Dean of Region 7; as a member and Secretary of the Standing Committee; as
Chair of the Evangelism Committee; as a member, then Chair, of the Council
Budget Committee; as a member of the Executive Board; as Chair of the
Commission on Congregational Missions; as a member of the Commission on
Church Planting; and as a member of the East Africa Committee of Region 7.
In addition, he has hosted a radio broadcast in Northern Virginia featuring
Episcopal clergy.
In the Commonwealth of Virginia, Bishop Jones represents the Diocese of
Virginia to the Virginia Council of Churches. He served as President of the
Council from 1998-2000.