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The Rt. Rev. David Colin Jones was ordained Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Virginia on June 24, 1995, at the Washington National Cathedral. He is one of three bishops serving the largest diocese in the Episcopal Church. Bishop Jones is the 907th bishop ordained in succession to Samuel Seabury, the first bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States.

The Diocese of Virginia, one of the oldest dioceses in the Episcopal Church, includes 38 counties in the central and northern regions of the Commonwealth and has more than 90,000 baptized members in 192 congregations served by over 400 clergy. The headquarters of the Diocese is at 110 West Franklin Street in Richmond. The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee is Bishop of Virginia.

David Jones was born on June 20, 1943, in Youngstown, Ohio, and grew up in West Virginia. He earned an A.B. in history from West Virginia University in 1965, a M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1968, and a D.Min. from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1991. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Virginia Theological Seminary. The Rt. Rev. Wilburn C. Campbell, a former Bishop of West Virginia, ordained Bishop Jones to the diaconate and to the priesthood in 1968.

Bishop Jones began his ordained ministry as Vicar of St. James' Church in Lewisburg, West Virginia, in 1968. He served that congregation until 1972, when he accepted a call to become Rector of St. Stephen's in Beckley, West Virginia. In 1978, he came to the Diocese of Virginia to become Rector of Church of the Good Shepherd in Burke, where he served until his election as Bishop Suffragan on January 27, 1995.

He has served the Diocese of Virginia in a number of leadership roles: as Dean of Region 7; as a member and Secretary of the Standing Committee; as Chair of the Evangelism Committee; as a member, then Chair, of the Council Budget Committee; as a member of the Executive Board; as Chair of the Commission on Congregational Missions; as a member of the Commission on Church Planting; and as a member of the East Africa Committee of Region 7. In addition, he has hosted a radio broadcast in Northern Virginia featuring Episcopal clergy.

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, Bishop Jones represents the Diocese of Virginia to the Virginia Council of Churches. He served as President of the Council from 1998-2000.

Bishop Jones's national involvement in the church includes service as a Deputy to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church and as a member of two committees of the House of Deputies (the Committee on the Church in Small Communities and the Ministry Committee) and as a Secretary of the Committee on Structure of the House of Bishops. He served on the Board for Theological Education from 1995-1997. He served as Secretary of the Standing Commission on Stewardship and Development from 1997-2000. Bishop Jones served as Chair of the Communications Committee of the House of Bishops at the 2003 General Convention. Presently, he is a Trustee of the Episcopal Media Center and a member of the Standing Commission on Domestic Mission and Evangelism.

Church growth has been a particular passion of Bishop Jones throughout his ministry. As a parish priest, he helped found two new congregations: All Souls, Daniels, West Virginia (1974), and St. Peter's in the Woods, Fairfax, Virginia (1988). As Bishop Suffragan, Bishop Jones has oversight of mission congregations and Church Planting.

Bishop Jones has represented the Diocese of Virginia as a member of a delegation to the Diocese of Jerusalem in 1991, and as a participant in the Leaders of Leaders Conference in 1983 in Nairobi, Kenya.

He has been married since 1965 to Mary Kennedy Biddle ("Kay"), who teaches French at St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School, a diocesan school in Alexandria. They have two children (David Jr., an attorney who lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Celeste, and Elizabeth DeVoll, a social worker who lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, Mark) and four grandchildren.

Bishop and Mrs. Jones reside in Burke. He maintains offices at Goodwin House in Alexandria and the Mayo Memorial Church House in Richmond.