Carlye J. Hughes is the eleventh and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.
[1] Hughes, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of Texas at Austin and worked as a corporate trainer for many years before attending seminary at the Virginia Theological Seminary, graduating in 2005.
Hughes is currently a Doctor of Ministry student at the School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.
[3] Trinity Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, Texas, called Hughes to serve as rector beginning in June 2013.
[4] Hughes is married to David R. Smedley and is the daughter of Coach Robert Hughes, a longtime boys’ high school basketball coach and a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.