Virginia Episcopalian Magazine Winter 2012 Issue | Page 4

Evangelist,
Church Planter,
Family Man
Bishop Jones reflects on ministry,
prepares for retirement

Photo: Elizabeth Boe

Bishop Jones celebrates the Eucharist with the Most Rev. Katharine
Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, at Christ
Church, Glen Allen during the American Friends of the Episcopal
Church of Sudan Conference in 2011.

EMILY CHERRY

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Even as a young boy, the Rt. Rev. David Colin Jones felt a call to the priesthood.
“I told my father that I felt called to ordained ministry when I was 14,” said
Jones. Now, 54 years after that initial call, Jones will retire as bishop suffragan
of the Diocese of Virginia at the 217 Ѡ