David Epps, pastor of Christ the King Charismatic Episcopal Church, Sharpsburg, will be enthroned, or installed, as a diocesan bishop in services on June 19. Epps, who was consecrated as a bishop in November 2007 and assigned as an auxiliary bishop for the Southeast Province will become the Bishop of the Diocese of the Mid-South which includes the states of Georgia and Tennessee and a mission in Illinois.

The previous bishop, the Most Rev. John Holloway, has been medically retired due to a debilitating stroke.

Epps has been in the ministry for over 35 years and has served churches in Tennessee, Virginia, Colorado, Georgia, and Illinois as youth pastor, assistant pastor, senior pastor, and priest. He became the founding pastor of Christ the King Church in September 1996.

Epps was named to the Bishop’s Council and was Canon to the Ordinary for Holloway for over 10 years. He also served as the chair of the Commission on Ordained Ministry for the Mid-South Diocese.

In November 2007, following a severe stroke suffered by Holloway, Epps was consecrated as a bishop in the CEC and served on the Southeast Province Archbishop’s Council, the Southeast Provincial Council, on the U. S. House of Bishops, and as a member of the national work group on church planting and growth. He has been published in numerous magazines and has been a weekly columnist for The Citizen newspapers since 1996.

He has been married for nearly 38 years to Cynthia Douglas Epps, Ph.D., who is the associate dean of the College of Nursing at the University of West Georgia. They have three adult sons and eleven grandchildren.

The Service of Enthronement will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Christ the King Church and will include bishops, priests, and deacons from New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.

The service is open to the public.

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