Choosing the theme “Feeding Hungry Hearts” for his episcopate, John Harvey Taylor was elected coadjutor in 2016 at age 62 and took office as bishop diocesan the following year. Crisis response – notably amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2025 L.A. County fire disaster, and injustices of a broken federal immigration system – has been central to his ministry as bishop. Bishop Taylor has championed the building of affordable housing, calling the diocese to construct new units on 25 percent of church properties. Concurrently he is a tireless advocate in matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion, seeking engagement across barriers of difference and prejudice according to race, language, geography, orientation, identification, age, and socioeconomics. He has devoted himself to promoting reconciliation, transparency, and a stronger financial and organizational foundation for the diocese’s parishes, missions, schools, and other institutions. Spouse of Kathy O’Connor, father of four, and grandfather of three, Bishop Taylor is a former newspaper reporter, director of the Nixon library, and chief of staff to former President Richard Nixon. A lifelong Episcopalian, Bishop Taylor was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954, the son of journalists. He is a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and received a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of California, San Diego, and a master of divinity at the Claremont School of Theology and Bloy House. Ordained a priest in 2004, he served as curate at St. Andrew’s, Fullerton, and in 2009 was named vicar of St. John Chrysostom Church and School in Rancho Santa Margarita. Bishop Taylor is the author of two novels, numerous newspaper and magazine articles, and daily posts to social media.