Bishops

1. Edward Bass
   Edward Bass
   The Right Reverend Edward Bass was the first American Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts and second bishop of the Diocese of Rhode Island....
   
   , (1797–1803)
2. Samuel Parker
   Samuel Parker (Episcopal bishop)
   Samuel Parker was the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.-Education and Ordination:...
   
   , (1804–1804)
3. Alexander Viets Griswold
   Alexander Viets Griswold
   Alexander Viets Griswold was the Episcopal Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, which included all of New England with the exception of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut....
   
   , (1811–1843) (fifth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church)
4. Manton Eastburn
   Manton Eastburn
   Manton Eastburn was an Episcopal bishop. After graduation from Columbia University, he studied at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in the United States before ordination as deacon and priest by Bishop John Henry Hobart of the Diocese of New York...
   
   , (Coadjutor, 1842; Diocesan, 1843–1872)
5. Benjamin Henry Paddock, (1873–1891)
6. Phillips Brooks
   Phillips Brooks
   Phillips Brooks was an American clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. In the Episcopal liturgical calendar he is remembered on January 23...
   
   , (1891–1893)
7. William Lawrence, (1893–1927)
8. Charles Lewis Slattery, (Coadjutor, 1922; Diocesan, 1927–1930)
9. Henry Knox Sherrill
   Henry Knox Sherrill
   Henry Knox Sherrill was an Episcopal clergyman. He was the 20th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1947 to 1958, having previously served as Bishop of Massachusetts .-Biography:...
   
   , (1930–1947) (20th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church)
10. Norman Burdett Nash, (Coadjutor, 1947; Diocesan, 1947–1956)
11. Anson Phelps Stokes, III
    Anson Phelps Stokes (clergyman)
    Anson Phelps Stokes III was the eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts from 1956 to 1970. He was the son of Anson Phelps Stokes and grandson of Anson Phelps Stokes of Phelps Dodge.An alumnus of St...
    
    , (Coadjutor, 1954; Diocesan, 1956–1970)
12. John Melville Burgess, (Suffragan, 1962–1969; Coadjutor, 1969; Diocesan, 1970–1975)
13. John Bowen Coburn, (1976–1986)
14. David Elliot Johnson, (Coadjutor, 1985; Diocesan, 1986–1995)
15. M. Thomas Shaw
    M. Thomas Shaw
    Marvil Thomas Shaw III, SSJE is a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is the fifteenth and current Bishop of Massachusetts.-Biography:...
    
    , SSJE, (Coadjutor, 1994; Diocesan, 1995–present)

Suffragan Bishops

1. Samuel Gavitt Babcock
   Samuel Gavitt Babcock
   Samuel Gavitt Babcock was an American bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He graduated from the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass., in 1891. After holding pastorates in Rhode Island and Massachusetts he was archdeacon of Massachusetts from 1903 to 1913, when he was elected...
   
   , (1913–1938)
2. Raymond Adams Heron, (1938–1954)
3. Frederic Cunningham Lawrence
   Frederic C. Lawrence
   Frederic C. Lawrence , was suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts . Frederic's father, William Lawrence, was the seventh bishop of the diocese ....
   
   , (1956–1968)
4. John M. Burgess, (Suffragan, 1962–1969; Coadjutor, 1969; Diocesan, 1970–1975)
5. Morris Fairchild Arnold
   Morris Fairchild Arnold
   Morris Fairchild "Ben" Arnold served as suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts from 1972 to 1982.Arnold served as chaplain in the United States Army, becoming rector of Grace Church, Medford, Massachusetts in 1945...
   
   , (1972–1982)
6. Barbara Clementine Harris
   Barbara Clementine Harris
   Barbara Clementine Harris was the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion.-Education:...
   
   , (1989–2002)
7. Roy F. "Bud" Cederholm, Jr., (2001–present)
8. Gayle Elizabeth Harris
   Gayle Elizabeth Harris
   Gayle Elizabeth Harris was ordained as Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in 2003, succeeding Barbara Harris.This is the first time in the Episcopal Church in the United States that a woman bishop has been succeeded by another woman bishop.-External links:* from Louie Crew...
   
   , (2003–present)