Lucinda Ashby

Lucinda Beth Ashby is the fourth and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real in the Episcopal Church.

Biography Prior to ordination Ashby had a career in education, teaching music and Spanish in grades 7 to 12 and was later head of a school in Sacramento. After ordination to the priesthood in 2004 she was assistant rector of St Martin's Church in Davis, California and then rector of St Matthew's Church in Sacramento, California. In 2011 she was appointed canon to the ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho. She was elected bishop of El Camino Real on June 1, 2019, on the third ballot. She was then consecrated on January 11, 2020.