George Robinson Sumner (born 1955) is the seventh and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.
[2] He was ordained deacon and priest in 1981 for the Diocese of Western Massachusetts, after which he became a tutor at St Philip's Theological College in Kongwa, Tanzania.
In 1984 he returned to the United States and became curate of St Matthew's Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1986 vicar of the Southeast Region for Navajoland Area Mission.
In 1999, Sumner was named principal of Wycliffe College, Toronto,[3][4] where he remained until his election as Bishop of Dallas on May 16, 2015.
[5] He was consecrated on November 14, 2015 in the First United Methodist Church of Dallas by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry.