LATROBE,
PA (JUNE 21, 2014)——The College of Bishops of the Anglican Church in North
America elected today the Rt. Rev. Dr. Foley Beach of the Diocese of the
South. Bishop Foley Beach will succeed the Most Rev. Robert Duncan, the
first archbishop for the Anglican Church in North America.
“The
election occurred Sunday afternoon at the conclusion of the College of Bishops
three-day conclave where they met in the crypt of the basilica at Saint Vincent
Archabbey,” said the Rev. Andrew Gross, Communications Director for the
Anglican Church in North America. The new archbishop will serve a
five-year term and is eligible for re-election.
“I
am delighted by this election and how the College of Bishops, after much
deliberation and prayer, came to a unanimous decision,” said Archbishop Robert
Duncan. “This is a happy day for the Anglican Church in North America, a
happy day for the Anglican Communion, and a happy day for the Christian
Church.”
Though
the current archbishop is stepping down from his role as archbishop of the
North American province, he will continue in his role as bishop of the Anglican
Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Archbishop-elect
Beach served as the Rector and Pastor of Holy Cross Anglican Church in
Loganville, GA, from its founding in February 2004, until December, 2013. On
October 9, 2010, he was consecrated in Atlanta, Georgia as the first Bishop of
the Anglican Diocese of the South in the Anglican Church in North America.
Dr.
Beach is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, the School of
Theology at the University of the South, and Georgia State University. He has
served in ministry with Young Life, the Episcopal Church, and the Anglican
Church.
His
passion is to share the Word of God in such a way as to help others discover
the incredible living Jesus. Married for more than 30 years, he and his wife,
Allison, have two grown children and make their home in the Metro-Atlanta area.
The
new archbishop will officially take office at the conclusion of the Provincial
Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America which begins on Wednesday,
June 25, 2014, at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA, with a formal
investiture to follow in the coming months.
The
Anglican Church in North America is recognized as a province by the Primates of
the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, which is composed of over 50
million Anglicans.
The Anglican Church
in North America consists of 112,000 Anglicans in nearly 1,000 congregations
across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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