Joseph Clark Grew II (born December 20, 1939) is an American prelate of the Episcopal Church, who served as Bishop of Ohio from 1994 to 2004.
Grew was the great nephew of Joseph Grew, who was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer, notably serving as the United States Ambassador to Japan at the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
[2] Grew then enrolled at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts to study theology.
He graduated with a Master of Divinity in 1978, and was ordained to the diaconate on June 18, 1978, and to the priesthood on December 20, 1978.
[3] During his episcopacy, he promoted ecumenism, dialogue with other dioceses in Ireland, and support for greater inclusion of women, gay, and lesbian Episcopalians in the church.