John Alfred Baden

Baden was ordained deacon on December 23, 1947, by Bishop Noble C. Powell of Maryland in Trinity Church, Towson, Maryland.^[2] He was then ordained priest by the same bishop in December 1948. He served in Trinity Church, Towson, Maryland from 1946 till 1948 and then became rector of St James' Church in Monkton, Maryland and St James' Mission in Parkton, Maryland. In 1958 he became Diocesan Missioner and Executive Secretary of the Department of Missions of the Diocese of Virginia, a post he retained till 1962. Subsequently, between 1959 and 1962, he also served as Archdeacon of Virginia. He served as rector of Frederick Parish responsible of Christ Church and St Paul's-on-the-Hill in Winchester, Virginia between 1962 and 1973.^[3]

Baden was elected Bishop of Northern Michigan on January 8, 1964, on the seventh ballot, however he declined the election.^[4] He was then elected Suffragan Bishop of Virginia in 1973, which he accepted. He was consecrated on June 30, 1973, in Washington National Cathedral by Bishop Robert F. Gibson Jr. of Virginia.^[5] During his time as bishop he was involved in assisting Anglican churches in Tanzania and Uganda, when in fact he visited Tanzania in 1975. He retired in 1979.