David Earle Bailey

David Earle Bailey (March 30, 1940 – July 28, 2024) was an American Episcopalian clergyman who was bishop of the Missionary Diocese of Navajoland, a missionary diocese of the Episcopal Church. He was consecrated bishop on August 7, 2010.

The Right Reverend David Earle Bailey
III Bishop of Navajoland
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	Navajoland
Elected	March 24, 2010
Previous post(s)	Canon to the Ordinary, Episcopal Diocese of Utah; Rector, St Stephen's Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona
Orders
Ordination	February 10, 1980
Consecration	August 7, 2010
Personal details
Born	(1940-03-30)March 30, 1940 Canton, Ohio, U.S.
Died	July 28, 2024(2024-07-28) (aged 84)
Alma mater	Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest

Bailey was ordained to the priesthood in 1980 and received an MDiv from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. He had previously served as rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Phoenix, Arizona, and as canon to the ordinary and development director in the Episcopal Diocese of Utah.^[1] He was a member of Bishops Against Gun Violence.

Consecrated bishop at age 70, he was the second oldest person to be made a bishop in the Episcopal Church and the first septuagenarian since the eighteenth-century.^[2]

Bailey died on July 28, 2024, at the age of 84.^[3]