Kevin D. Nichols

Kevin Donnelly Nichols is an American bishop who served as the ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem from 2018 to 2025. Since the reunification of the Diocese of Bethlehem with the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania on January 1, 2026, he has been assistant bishop of the Susquehanna and is scheduled to succeed diocesan bishop Audrey Scanlan as bishop provisional in 2027.

Initially ordained as a Roman Catholic priest, Nichols was received into the Episcopal priesthood in 1999. Prior to serving as Bishop of Bethlehem, Nichols worked as a rector for several small parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, for which he also served as president of the diocesan Standing Committee.

Biography Nichols was originally ordained a Roman Catholic priest after receiving his Master of Divinity from St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore.

On April 28, 2018, Nichols was elected Bishop of Bethlehem on the first ballot of a special convention that took place in the Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was consecrated on September 15, 2018, at the First Presbyterian Church in Allentown, Pennsylvania by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. He was installed in the Cathedral of the Nativity on October 12, 2018.