Ordering Masks for Churches

The Diocese of North Carolina has made arrangements for the volume purchase of masks through Carolina Textile District, a company in western North Carolina.

Both cloth masks and replacement filters may be ordered. Through this offer, masks cost $4.95 each and are sold in packs of five, and replacement filters cost $.40 each and sold in packs of 20. Each filter is good for three to five uses. Use the following discount coupon codes at checkout to receive the discount price:

For masks: DIONCsafemask
For filters: DIONCsafefilter

Please note each church must place its own order and cover the cost of shipping. The discount is intended to be applied only to church orders at this time; if there is interest in individual purchase options, that will be explored at a later date.

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The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman

XII Bishop Diocesan of North Carolina

The Rt. Rev. Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple

VI Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina

The Rev. Canon David Forster Sellery

Canon for Congregational Mission

919-834-7474, ext. 5303

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman

XII Bishop Diocesan of North Carolina

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman was ordained and consecrated as the XII Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina in Duke Chapel on the campus of Duke University in Durham on July 15, 2017. He was elected on March 4, 2017.

Prior to his election, Bishop Rodman served as the Special Projects Officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, a role he took on after spending five years as the diocesan project manager for campaign initiatives, where he engaged congregations, clergy and laity, in collaborative local and global mission through the Together Now campaign, helping to raise $20 million to fund these initiatives. Prior to that, he spent 16 years as the rector of St. Michael’s in Milton, Massachusetts, during which the parish established a seven-year plan that included a capital campaign for a major renovation of the church school building.

Ordained in 1988, Bishop Rodman is a graduate of Bates College and Virginia Theological Seminary. He and his wife of 32 years, Deborah, live in Raleigh. They are the parents of two adult daughters. In his free time, Bishop Rodman enjoys basketball, golf, kayaking, crosswords and creative writing.

The Rt. Rev. Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple

VI Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina

Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple was elected the Diocese's sixth Bishop Suffragan and the first female bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina on January 26, 2013, at the 197th Annual Convention. She was consecrated on June 15, 2013, in Duke Chapel on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Bishop Hodges-Copple grew up in Dallas, Texas, and attended Duke University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1979 with a major in public policy. She earned her Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, in 1984.

In the years between college and seminary and then seminary and ordination, Hodges-Copple worked as a community organizer in Massachusetts and Appalachia and as a shelter director for victims of domestic violence in North Carolina. She was ordained a deacon in 1987 and a priest in 1988.

Bishop Hodges-Copple has served her entire ordained life in the Diocese of North Carolina, working 13 years in parish ministry and 13 years as a campus minister. She served as the rector of St. Luke’s, Durham, until she was elected to the episcopate. Bishop Hodges-Copple has a particular passion for shaping mission and ministry to be attuned to the voices, needs and wisdom of disempowered communities.

In her role as Bishop Suffragan, Bishop Hodges-Copple has particular responsibilities in campus and young adult ministries, new mission starts (Galilee ministries), the Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission, the ordination process for the diaconate, global partnerships for mission, ecumenical and interfaith collaborations and the pastoral care of retired clergy, their spouses and surviving spouses. In the spring of 2018, she led a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, her third such pilgrimage, and plans another in 2020.

Hodges-Copple is currently a member of the Executive Council for The Episcopal Church, the Board of Historic Black Colleges & Universities and the Task Force for Social Advocacy. She served on the Special Legislative Committee for Marriage at the 2015 General Convention in Salt Lake City and chaired the House of Bishops’ Legislative Committee on Social Concerns at the 79th General Convention in Austin, Texas. She is also a member of the Bishops United Against Gun Violence.

During the transition between the 11th and 12th Bishops of North Carolina, she served as Bishop Diocesan Pro Tempore, the ecclesiastical authority of the diocese.

She and her husband, John, have three adult children. John is Director of Planning for the Triangle J Council of Governments.

The Rev. Canon David Forster Sellery

Canon for Congregational Mission
919-834-7474, ext. 5303 |

The Rev. David Sellery is an Episcopal priest, author and coach. He presently serves as canon for congregational mission for the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. David has excelled at using new media to increase outreach beyond the Church doors via his website (davidsellery.org), blog posts, podcasts (Fr. Sellery Presents This Week’s Focus) and links to his Twitter (@FrSellery) and Facebook accounts. He has successfully opened the doors of St. John’s in Salisbury, Connecticut, to the wider community, particularly to young people and families, through the “WiFi Café” program he hosted weekly in the parish hall. As part of his community outreach mission, David served as an emergency medical technician with The Salisbury Volunteer Ambulance Service.

David is married to Jane Muir Sellery. They have two sons, Robert and William. Jane draws on her academic and professional backgrounds and prior to relocating to North Carolina, she served the town of Cornwall as their director of social services. Jane continues to work as the consulting genealogist to the Salisbury town historian and is an active member of the Salisbury Association.

In addition to extensive parish work, David served as the director of institutional advancement for two of New York's premier not-for-profit organizations, focusing in the areas of community development and healthcare. While working in portfolio and investment management, David continued his active ministry serving as visiting clergy to parishes in Connecticut and New York and on Long Island. His experience as a commuting executive informs his perspective in serving families in commuter communities. He later returned to full-time parish work, to which he brought his enhanced administrative, communications and stewardship skills.

Born in Norwood, MA, David was educated in public schools in Darien, CT; Malvern, PA and Woodland Hills, CA. He majored in English Literature and received his B.A. from the University of Connecticut (1989); Masters of Divinity from The General Theological Seminary in New York (1992); and Certificate in Appreciative Transitional Ministry (2013) and Certificate in Appreciative Coaching via The Clergy Leadership Institute (2015). David serves as a director of Nazareth Friends, Inc., a family foundation that owns and operates four homes for people with developmental disabilities in Florida.

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