Chester Lovelle Talton (born September 22, 1941) is the Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Los Angeles in the The Episcopal Church.
Positions that Bishop Talton has held include: Bishop Suffragan, Diocese of Los Angeles, 1991 to present. Previous positions include: Rector, St. Philip's Church, New York City (Harlem), 1985-1990; Mission Officer, Trinity Church Wall Street, New York City, 1981-1985; Rector, St. Philip's Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1976-1981; Vicar, Holy Cross Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1973-1976; Vicar, St. Mathias' Mission, and Curate, All Saints' Church, Carmel, California, 1971-1973; Vicar, Good Shepherd Church, Berkeley, California, 1970-1971.
Bishop Talton's education: California State University, Hayward, California B.S., 1965; Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, M.Div., 1970; Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, D.D.
Personal facts: Born September 22, 1941, El Dorado, Arkansas. Ordained priest, February, 1971, in the San Francisco-based Diocese of California. Married Karen Louise Warren in August, 1963 and has four children from this union: Kathy, Linda, Frederick and Benjamin. Karen Talton died in 2003. Talton remarried in 2007, to April Grayson, a lay leader in the Diocese of Los Angeles. He is African American, and one of 37 black bishops who have been consecrated by the Episcopal Church.
Book
- Race and prayer : collected voices, many dreams / Malcolm Boyd and Chester L. Talton, editors. Harrisburg, Pa. : Morehouse Pub., c2003. xii, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN 0-8192-1909-6 (pbk.)
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