Vicar, St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, Kapaau, Hawaiʻi (2015–2020)
Rector, Dean, Waiolaihui'ia School for Formation, Episcopal Diocese of Hawaiʻi (2014–2020)
Diana Dorothy Akiyama is the eleventh and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon. She was elected on August 29, 2020, in the first all-online election in the Episcopal Church. This was due to COVID-19. She was one of four candidates for the office.[1] At the time of her election she was vicar of St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Kapaau, Hawaiʻi, and dean of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaiʻi's Waiolaihui'ia School for Formation. She was ordained to the priesthood in 1988 in the Diocese of Eastern Oregon. She is the first Japanese-American woman to become an Episcopal priest. She was consecrated on January 30, 2021, at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland and is the first Asian-American woman to become an Episcopal bishop.[2]