Peter Lee (bishop of Virginia)

Peter James Lee (11 May 1938 - 2 July 2022) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church.

Beginning early in Lee's episcopate, several conservative congregations stopped paying diocesan dues, citing objections to the ordination of women priests, as authorized by the General Convention.

The controversy metamorphosed, with the stated primary objections changing to matters of sexuality with the consecration of bishop Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire in 2003, and the election of Katharine Jefferts Schori as Presiding Bishop in 2006.

Lee sued to have the facilities declared the property of the Diocese,[2] and was ultimately successful, although that resolution only happened under his successor.

Then he moved to France and became Interim Dean and Rector at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris in 2011 and 2012.