Mary Douglas Glasspool (born February 23, 1954) is an assistant bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
[citation needed] Later, the Glasspool family moved to Goshen, New York, where her father served as rector of St. James' Church until his death in 1989.
[1] Glasspool was elected a bishop suffragan on December 4, 2009, on the seventh ballot at the 115th convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles in Riverside, California.
[4] Glasspool was consecrated on May 15, 2010, in Long Beach, California, by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori.
[6] Her election has gained worldwide attention in the context of the ongoing debate about gay bishops in Anglicanism.