Cathleen Chittenden Bascom (born January 27, 1962) is the tenth and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas.
in preaching from Iliff School of Theology in 2005, and an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University in 2017.
She then became assistant priest at St Gregory's Church in Deerfield, Illinois.
She was dean of the Cathedral of St Paul in Des Moines, Iowa, from 2007 to 2014 when she became an assistant professor of religion at Waldorf University.
It was the first time in the Episcopal Church that the entire slate of candidates for the election of a bishop were women.