Staff & Board

Bailey Farrin grew up in Memphis, Tennesse, where she personally witnessed struggles for civil rights and by which she was deeply affected. In 1982, she graduated with a bachelor of arts in English Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, during which she also studied Spanish in Madrid, Spain. After graduation she was a teacher of English and Spanish for three years in different public schools in the states of Arkansas, Connecticut and New York. Bailey graduated with honors from Duke University School of Law in 1990 and practiced civil law including family law for 5 years in Los Angeles County, California. Returning to North Carolina in 1995, Bailey practiced family law until 1998 and then from 1998 to 2005 she worked with Hispanic clients pursuing their legal rights for personal injuries at the law firm James Scott Farrin in Durham. Licensed to practice law in California and North Carolina, Bailey now practices immigration, criminal defense, traffic defense and personal injury with Marcus E. Hill in Durham. She is the president of the North Carolina Advocates of Justice Immigration Lawyer Division and a member of American Immigration Lawyers Association and a member of the Durham County Bar Association. Bailey is a cradle Episcopalian and is a member of Iglesia de Buen Pastor in Durham, North Carolina. Twice a month, Bailey gives free legal consultations at El Centro Hispano in Durham.  Bailey has volunteered as an attorney at Church World Services with the Central American Minors Program before it was recently canceled by the Trump administration.  Bailey lives in Durham with her two daughters and enjoys tennis and travel during her free time.

Father Daniel Robayo serves as Missioner for Latino/Hispanic Ministries of the Diocese of North Carolina. Before that, he served in parishes of the Diocese of Virginia, where Bishop Peter James Lee ordained him deacon (1987) and priest (1988). He was rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg from 2009 until Bishop Sam Rodman and Bishop Anne Hodges-Copple called him in the summer of 2018 to serve in North Carolina. He resides in Raleigh with his beloved wife Nancy Urrecheaga-Robayo. They have 5 children and 6 grandchildren. Born in Venezuela, Padre Daniel has lived in the US since age 16. Besides his vocation for ministry, he has a passion for community organizing focused on issues affecting Latino communities. He loves singing, reading, and riding his motorcycle.

The Rev. Jan Lamb is the Archdeacon for the Diocese of North Carolina and also serves as Chaplain to the Bishop Suffragan.  She is Bishop Anne Hodges-Copple’s representative on the Board of the Ministry.  Previously, Jan served as deacon at St. Luke’s in Durham, Raleigh Episcopal Campus Ministry, and St. Andrew’s in Haw River.  In Durham, she is the tutoring coordinator for the Latino Educational Achievement Partnership (LEAP).  Jan also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Holy Cross Education Foundation which supports Holy Cross Anglican School in San Mateo, Belize.  She recently retired after a 43-year career as an educator of students with learning differences.  She has 2 sons and 2 granddaughters.

XII Bishop Diocesan of North Carolina

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman was ordained and consecrated as the XII Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina in Duke Chapel on the campus of Duke University in Durham on July 15, 2017. He was elected on March 4, 2017.

Prior to his election, Bishop Rodman served as the Special Projects Officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, a role he took on after spending five years as the diocesan project manager for campaign initiatives, where he engaged congregations, clergy and laity, in collaborative local and global mission through the Together Now campaign, helping to raise $20 million to fund these initiatives. Prior to that, he spent 16 years as the rector of St. Michael’s in Milton, Massachusetts, during which the parish established a seven-year plan that included a capital campaign for a major renovation of the church school building.

Ordained in 1988, Bishop Rodman is a graduate of Bates College and Virginia Theological Seminary. He and his wife of 32 years, Deborah, live in Raleigh. They are the parents of two adult daughters. In his free time, Bishop Rodman enjoys basketball, golf, kayaking, crosswords and creative writing.

VI Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina

Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple was elected the Diocese’s sixth Bishop Suffragan and the first female bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina on January 26, 2013, at the 197th Annual Convention. She was consecrated on June 15, 2013, in Duke Chapel on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Bishop Hodges-Copple grew up in Dallas, Texas, and attended Duke University where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1979 with a major in public policy. She earned her Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, in 1984.

In the years between college and seminary and then seminary and ordination, Hodges-Copple worked as a community organizer in Massachusetts and Appalachia and as a shelter director for victims of domestic violence in North Carolina. She was ordained a deacon in 1987 and a priest in 1988.

Bishop Hodges-Copple has served her entire ordained life in the Diocese of North Carolina working 13 years in parish ministry and 13 years as a campus minister. She served as the rector of St. Luke’s, Durham, until she was elected to the episcopate. Bishop Hodges-Copple has a particular passion for shaping mission and ministry to be attuned to the voices, needs and wisdom of disempowered communities.

In her role as Bishop Suffragan, Bishop Hodges-Copple has particular responsibilities in campus and young adult ministries, new mission starts (Galilee ministries), the Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission, the ordination process for the diaconate, global partnerships for mission, ecumenical and interfaith collaborations and the pastoral care of retired clergy, their spouses and  surviving spouses. In the spring of 2018, she helped to lead a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, her third such pilgrimage, and plans another in 2020.

Hodges-Copple is currently a member of the Executive Council for The Episcopal Church, the Board of Historic Black Colleges & Universities, and the Task Force for Social Advocacy. She served on the Special Legislative Committee for Marriage at the 2015 General Convention in Salt Lake City and Chaired the House of Bishops’ Legislative Committee on Social Concerns at the 79^th General Convention in Austin, Tx.  She is also a member of the Bishops United Against Gun Violence.

During the transition between the 11th and 12th Bishops of North Carolina, she served as Bishop Diocesan Pro Tempore, the Ecclesiastical Authority of the diocese.

She and her husband, John, have three adult children and one grandchild. John is Director of Planning for the Triangle J Council of Governments.