Joseph Scott Barker (born June 11, 1963) is an American Episcopal clergyman, and the eleventh and current Bishop of Nebraska.
[1][2] Barker served as Assistant to the Dean and Canon Vicar at Trinity Cathedral in Omaha from 1992 to 1997, Rector of Church of the Resurrection in Omaha from 1997 to 2002, and Rector of Christ Church in Warwick, New York from 2002 to 2011.
[3][4] Barker was consecrated on October 8, 2011, in La Vista, Nebraska, and is the 1,060th bishop in the American succession.
Early in his episcopacy, Barker assisted in founding the Tri-Faith Initiative, a collaboration between Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
[5] In 2024 Barker was shortlisted to succeed Michael Curry as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.