Mark Andrew Cowell is the sixth and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas.
Raised in the Episcopal Church, he attended Drew University where he majored in political science and received a bachelor's degree in 1990.
He was trained locally and ordained deacon in October 2003 and priest in June 2004.
Like many clergy in his largely rural diocese, Cowell is bi-vocational.
[2] His wife Julie Fletcher Cowell is Pawnee County magistrate judge.