section_path: Career/Episcopacy
section_name: Episcopacy
paragraph_text: Episcopacy
  
  Budde was elected the ninth bishop of Washington on June 18, 2011, at a special convention at Washington National Cathedral to replace the retiring bishop, John Bryson Chane. She was consecrated at the cathedral on November 12 of that year, becoming Washington's first female diocesan bishop. Her consecrator was the presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, with bishops Brian Prior, Mark M. Beckwith, John Bryson Chane, and Mary Glasspool as co-consecrators. The next day, Sunday, she preached her first sermon at the National Cathedral at a service attended by 2,000 people. That weekend also marked the first services at the cathedral since the August 23, 2011, earthquake damaged the cathedral.
  
  As bishop, Budde heads the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, which comprises 86 Episcopal congregations and 10 Episcopal schools across the District of Columbia and in four Maryland counties: Montgomery, Prince George's, Charles, and St. Mary's. She also serves as chair of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, and as an ex officio member of the Governing Board of the National Cathedral School.
  
  Budde was elected the ninth bishop of Washington on June 18, 2011, at a special convention at Washington National Cathedral to replace the retiring bishop, John Bryson Chane. She was consecrated at the cathedral on November 12 of that year, becoming Washington's first female diocesan bishop. Her consecrator was the presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, with bishops Brian Prior, Mark M. Beckwith, John Bryson Chane, and Mary Glasspool as co-consecrators. The next day, Sunday, she preached her first sermon at the National Cathedral at a service attended by 2,000 people. That weekend also marked the first services at the cathedral since the August 23, 2011, earthquake damaged the cathedral.
  
  As bishop, Budde heads the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, which comprises 86 Episcopal congregations and 10 Episcopal schools across the District of Columbia and in four Maryland counties: Montgomery, Prince George's, Charles, and St. Mary's. She also serves as chair of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, and as an ex officio member of the Governing Board of the National Cathedral School.