Nedi Rivera

The Right Reverend

Bavi Edna Rivera
Bishop of Eastern Oregon
ChurchEpiscopal Church
DioceseEastern Oregon
Elected2009
In office2009–2016
PredecessorWilliam O. Gregg
SuccessorPatrick W. Bell
Other post(s)Suffragan Bishop of Olympia (2005–2010)
Orders
OrdinationJune 28, 1975 (deacon)
May 5, 1979 (priest)
by Chauncie Kilmer Myers, Bishop of California
ConsecrationJanuary 22, 2005
by Harry Brown Bainbridge III
Personal details
Born
Bavi Edna Rivera

(1946-03-24) March 24, 1946 (age 78)
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican
ParentsVictor Rivera & Barbara Ross Starbuck
Spouse
Robert Moore
(m. 1979)
Children4
Alma materWheaton College
Church Divinity School of the Pacific

Bavi Edna "Nedi" Rivera (born March 24, 1946) is a bishop of the Episcopal Church who served as a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Olympia and as the Seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Oregon.[1] She was the first Hispanic woman elected to become a bishop in the Episcopal Church. Her late father, Victor Rivera, was also a bishop in the church.

  1. ^ Timeline of Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon, Diocese of Eastern Oregon, retrieved May 20, 2024