Michael G. Smith

The Rt. Rev. Michael G. Smith is an Assisting Bishop in the Diocese of Albany. He was the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota, consecrated on May 8, 2004.

An enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma, Bishop Smith served churches in Oklahoma and Minnesota before coming to North Dakota. He is the Chair of the Bishops’ Native Collaborative, member of the national Indigenous Missioner’s Advisory Council, and Chair of the Communion Partner Bishops’ Advisory Committee.

He earned degrees in Psychology, Music, Social Work, and Divinity from Oklahoma State University, Marymount College of Kansas, the University of Oklahoma, and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in preaching from Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. Bishop Smith is a Benedictine Oblate of St. John’s Abbey in Minnesota.

He is married to the Rev. Lisa White Smith, also an Episcopal priest. The couple have three grown children and nine grandchildren.