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Chester Lovelle Talton (born September 22, 1941) was the Provisional Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin in the Episcopal Church.

Personal life

Talton was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, to Chester Talton and Mae Ola Shells. He was ordained deacon in 1970 and to the priesthood in February 1971, in the San Francisco–based Diocese of California. He married Karen Louise Warren on August 25, 1963, and has four children from this union. Karen Talton died in 2003. Talton remarried in 2007, to April Grayson, a lay leader in the Diocese of Los Angeles. He is African American, and one of 37 black bishops who have been consecrated by the Episcopal Church.

Education

Talton studied at California State University, Hayward, California where he earned his B.S. in 1965, and Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, where he earned his M.Div. in 1970, and ultimately his D.D.

Positions held

Positions held include Provisional Bishop, Diocese of San Joaquin, 2011–2014; Bishop Suffragan, Diocese of Los Angeles, 1991 to 2010; Rector, St. Philip's Church, New York City (Harlem), 1985–1990; Mission Officer, Trinity Church Wall Street, New York City, 1981–1985; Rector, St. Philip's Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1976–1981; Vicar, Holy Cross Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1973–1976; Vicar, St. Mathias' Mission, and Curate, All Saints' Church, Carmel, California, 1971–1973; and Vicar, Good Shepherd Church, Berkeley, California, 1970–1971.

Talton's consecrators were Edmond L. Browning, Orris George Walker, and Robert Marshall Anderson.

Bibliography

• Race and prayer: collected voices, many dreams / Malcolm Boyd and Chester L. Talton, editors. Harrisburg, Pa.: Morehouse Pub., c. 2003. xii, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN 0-8192-1909-6 (pbk.)

External links

• Office of Black Ministries: Chester Lovelle Talton
• Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles: Bishops' Offices

References

1. "SAN JOAQUIN: Standing Committee nominates Chet Talton as provisional bishop", Episcopal News Service, January 19, 2011. Retrieved on July 25, 2023.
2. "Chester Lovell Talton", Episcopal Church, March 16, 2022. Retrieved on July 25, 2023.
3. "TALTON, CHESTER LOVELLE". Who's Who in the West: 814. 1999. ISBN 9780837909240.
4. "TALTON, CHESTER LOVELLE". Who's Who in Religion: 510. 1992. ISBN 9780837916040.
5. Jack Curry (6 November 1990). "Los Angeles Names Rector From Harlem As Assistant Bishop". New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
6. "First Black Episcopal Bishop in West Ordained", Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1991. Retrieved on July 25, 2023.

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