Diane M. Jardine Bruce

The Rt. Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce serves as the Bishop Provisional of The Episcopal Church in West Missouri. Previously, she was the seventh Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles where she oversaw Multicultural Ministry, Stewardship, and Finance, as well as the southern and northern thirds of the Diocese.

Prior to this, she served as Rector of St. Clement’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church and as Associate Rector of Church of the Messiah. Before this, she worked for 17 years as a banker for Wells Fargo Bank, serving in various capacities in the International, Corporate, and Commercial Divisions, serving her last few years in charge of the Wholesale Relationship and Profitability System working on incentive compensation.

She serves as Secretary to the House of Bishops, Bishop Visitor of the Anamchara Fellowship, and is an active participant in the various ethnic ministry gatherings for The Episcopal Church as well as serving on the Diocese of Los Angeles’ Diocesan Investment Trust and the Corporation of the Diocese. She is serving her second term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees.

She received an honorary DDiv and a DMin from Seabury Western Theological Seminary, an MDiv from Claremont School of Theology, and a BA in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley.