He married Karen Louise Warren on August 25, 1963, and has four children from this union.
Talton remarried in 2007, to April Grayson, a lay leader in the Diocese of Los Angeles.
He is African American, and one of 37 black bishops who have been consecrated by the Episcopal Church.
in 1965,[3] and Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, where he earned his M.Div.
Talton's consecrators were Edmond L. Browning, Orris George Walker, and Robert Marshall Anderson.