Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde speaks during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) By John T. Shaw ...

Rt Rev Mariann Edgar Budde speaks during the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2025. [AFP] When bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is not ...

I'm always open to that," Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, told USA TODAY. Trump was upset by Budde’s sermon for his Jan. 21 inauguration prayer service.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who asked that President Trump “have mercy” on LGBTQ children and immigrants during a prayer service he attended in January, says she hopes Pride Month celebrations ...

President Donald Trump and attendees of the National Day of Prayer Service stand as the Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., enters on Jan. 21, 2025.

In 2011, she made history as the first female bishop of the Washington diocese. In addition to the challenges of becoming clergy, Budde said the desert heat demanded both physical and spiritual ...

D.C.’s mayor and the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington are among those voicing criticism of the president’s use of a church and a Bible for a campaign photo-op that was preceded ...

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who asked that President Trump “have mercy” on LGBTQ children and immigrants during a prayer service he attended in January, says she hopes Pride Month celebrations ...