Gretchen Rehberg

[3] Rehberg was a professor of organic chemistry at Bucknell University until the late 1990s, when she left to enter theological school.

[3] She was in New York City on September 11, 2001 and provided first aid to survivors of the World Trade Center attack.

[3] Rehberg was rector of the Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Lewiston, Idaho for 11 years prior to her consecration as bishop.

[1] Rehberg has pulmonary fibrosis, possibly caused by conditions she experienced in her work in New York after the World Trade Center attack.

In 2022, she suffered a flare up that significantly reduced her lung capacity and as of May 2023, is awaiting a double-lung transplant while she continues to travel her diocese in her work as bishop.