Mark Sisk

Mark Sean Sisk KStJ ( born August 18, 1942 in Takoma Park, Maryland ) is an American Anglican clergyman of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America and Bishop of the Diocese of New York.

Life

After leaving school, Sisk studied economics at the University of Maryland, College Park and reached the Bachelor of Science in 1964. Thereafter Sisk attended the General Theological Seminary in New York City and studied Anglican theology there and reached in 1967 a Master of Divinity. Honorary doctorates were conferred upon him in 1984 by the General Theological Seminary and in 1998 by Seabury - Western Theological Seminary. Sisk was curator for three years at Christ Episcopal Church in New Brunswick, NJ, and afterwards priest for three more years at Christ Episcopal Church in Bronxville, New York. From 1973 to 1977, Sisk Rector of the St John 's Episcopal Church in Kingston, New York and from 1977 to 1984, he served as archdeacon under Bishop Paul Moore in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. From 1984 to 1998 Sisk president and dean of Seabury - Western Theological Seminary. Sisk is a member of the Third Order of the Anglican Society of St. Francis.

Sisk was elected Bischofkoadjutor the Episcopal Diocese of New York in 1998 and consecrated by Frank Tracy Griswold and Richard Frank Grein and Walter Decoster Dennis Bishop. On 29 September 2001 Sisk was consecrated bishop of New York in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.

1963 Sisk married Karen Womack Calvert. The couple has three children.