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PEARUSA
PEARUSA was the North American missionary district of the Anglican Church of Rwanda. It took the first part of its name from the acronym for the Rwandan church's official French name (Province de l'Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda, or PEAR). PEARUSA was also a sub-jurisdiction of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), but on 23 September 2015 the Synod of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda at its regular meeting held at St. Etienne Cathedral in Kigali, Rwanda resolved to fully transfer PEARUSA to the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) with some of the existing PEARUSA networks becoming full ACNA dioceses by June 2016. Upon the unanimous vote of ACNA's Provincial Council on 21 June 2016, PEARUSA was fully transferred to ACNA with two of the three former PEARUSA networks id-Atlantic and Northeast, Westbecoming full ACNA dioceses known respectively as the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope and the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains. The former PEARUSA Southeas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bryan (bishop)
David C. Bryan (born 1957) is an American bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. Consecrated in 2013 to serve in PEARUSA, the Anglican Church of Rwanda's missionary district in North America, Bryan has since 2016 been bishop suffragan and area bishop for South Carolina in the Diocese of the Carolinas. Early life, education, and early career Bryan grew up in the Episcopal Church. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1979 and from Trinity School for Ministry in 1983. From 1983 to 2001, he was first assistant rector at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Orlando, then associate rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Jacksonville, and finally rector of the Church of St. Luke and St. Peter in St. Cloud, Florida. In 2001, Bryan succeeded Chuck Murphy as senior pastor of All Saints Episcopal Church, Pawleys Island in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina. All Saints Pawleys was at the time an epicenter of activity in the Anglican realignment; Murphy had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Church In North America
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition in the United States and Canada. It also includes ten congregations in Mexico, two mission churches in Guatemala, and a missionary diocese in Cuba. Headquartered in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, the church reported 974 congregations and 122,450 members in 2021. The first archbishop of the ACNA was Robert Duncan, who was succeeded by Foley Beach in 2014. The ACNA was founded in 2009 by former members of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada who were dissatisfied with liberal doctrinal and social teachings in their former churches, which they considered contradictory to traditional Anglican belief. Prior to 2009, these conservative Anglicans had begun to receive support from a number of Anglican churches (or provinces) outside of North America, especially in the Global South. Several Episcopal dioceses and many individual parishes in both Canada and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Ross (bishop)
Kenneth Erik Ross (born 1964) is an American Anglican bishop. Since 2016, he has been the first diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains in the Anglican Church in North America. In 2001, Ross and his wife, Sallie, and their two sons moved to Colorado Springs to plant a church as part of the nascent Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMIA). In September 2002, they launched International Anglican Church (IAC). The name reflected Ross's desire to build and maintain connections to Rwanda. The church sponsors an annual 5K run staged in both Colorado Springs and Kibali, Rwanda, that raises funds for health care, economic development and education in Kibali. IAC has a sister parish relationship with Kibali Parish in the Anglican Diocese of Byumba. The church also had a mission to serve people who felt "wounded" by past church experiences. IAC has planted two new churches in Colorado Springs since 2002. In 2010, AMIA—which had been a founding member of the Angl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Breedlove
Steven Allen Breedlove (born 1950) is an American prelate of the Anglican Church in North America. He was elected as the first Presider Bishop of PEARUSA, a missionary district that was formerly part of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, in 2012. In 2016, Breedlove became the first diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope. Biography Breedlove was born in Tyler, Texas to First Lieutenant James Robby Breedlove and Paula Kent. He graduated from Robert E. Lee High School and attended Washington and Lee University for undergraduate studies. He then obtained Master of Theology and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary, writing a dissertation based on case studies in team ministry at Bethany Chapel in Calgary, Alberta, where he was the senior pastor from 1990 to 1997. He was a non-denominational Christian pastor for 29 years prior to converting to Anglicanism in 2001. In 2005, Breedlove was ordained as a priest of the Anglican Church of Rwanda an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quigg Lawrence
Raymond Quigg Lawrence Jr. (born 1959) is an American bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. He was consecrated in 2013 as bishop suffragan in the Atlantic coast network of PEARUSA, which in 2016 became the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope. Since 1989, he has been rector of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Roanoke County, Virginia. Early life and education Lawrence was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the oldest of three children. His father, R. Quigg Lawrence Sr., was a Navy veteran and marketer who worked on the creative team that developed the Virginia Is for Lovers campaign. The elder Lawrence was also a recording studio executive who employed a young Bruce Springsteen, and music promoter, and his son worked as security for acts like David Bowie. Lawrence attended Collegiate School in Richmond, graduating in 1977. He spent two years at the University of Virginia, where he said he majored in "fraternity mayhem." His ambitions to become a doctor frustrated by his al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Diocese Of Christ Our Hope
The Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. The diocese originated from the dissolution of the Missionary District of PEARUSA, which resulted in the creation of two new dioceses, both admitted at the ACNA at their General Council on 21 June 2016. It has 34 parishes in 11 American states, which are Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, and in Washington, D.C. The state with most parishes is North Carolina, with 11. The diocese's bishop ordinary is Steve Breedlove, since 2016, with Quigg Lawrence as the suffragan bishop and Alan J. Hawkins as the bishop coadjutor. History PEARUSA was created in 2012 as the missionary organization of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda in the United States and Canada, a dual jurisdiction of his African mother church and the Anglican Church in North America. PEARUSA was divided in three regional n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Church Of Rwanda
The Anglican Church of Rwanda (French: ''Église anglicane du Rwanda'') is a province of the Anglican Communion, covering 11 dioceses in Rwanda. The primate of the province is Laurent Mbanda, consecrated on 10 June 2018. Official names The Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda was also known by its French name, Province de L'Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda (PEAR). The former name of the province, Province de L'Eglise Episcopal au Rwanda, was changed by action of an extraordinary meeting of the Provincial Synod at St. Étienne, Biryogo, on November 29, 2007. The province changed its name once again to Anglican Church of Rwanda in a decision taken at their Synod, in September 2019. Archbishop Laurent Mbanda, in an official letter as vice chairman of GAFCON, explained the decision: "Removing the word ‘Province’ is a significant change. We are not subjects. Some want us to accept that it is essential to being Anglican that you are recognised by Canterbury, but we find our identity fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrell Glenn (bishop)
Terrell Lyles Glenn Jr. (born 1958) is an American bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. He is a former Episcopal priest who played an active role in the Anglican realignment in the United States. Consecrated in 2008 to serve as a bishop in the Anglican Mission in the Americas, Glenn is now an assisting bishop overseeing North Carolina congregations in the Diocese of the Carolinas. Early life, education, and early career Glenn was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Terrell L. Glenn Sr., a former U.S. attorney, and Louise Owens Glenn. His paternal grandfather, John Lyles Glenn Jr., was a federal judge, and his maternal grandfather, Frank Owens, was a former mayor of Columbia. The Glenn family were active (though not, according to Terrell Jr., particularly devout) members of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia. Terrell Jr. described his family's faith as "good churchmanship equaled good citizenship." Terrell Jr. attended St. Andrew's School in Delaware. One su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Diocese Of The Rocky Mountains
The Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. In 2023, the diocese had 35 parishes in the American states of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, Idaho, Missouri, California, Oregon, Washington, Ohio, South Dakota, Minnesota, New Jersey and Hawaii. The state with most parishes is Colorado, with 9. The diocese's first bishop is Ken Ross. History The Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains traces its origins to the Anglican Mission in the Americas, started as a missionary movement of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda in the United States and Canada, in 2000. The AMiA was a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America, in June 2009, it later would become an associate member and would eventually leave, in December 2011. Most of their parishes decided to create the PEARUSA, as the new missionary district of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, also a dual member of the ACNA, since June 2012. PEARUSA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thad Barnum
Thaddeus Rockwell Barnum (born 1957) is an American bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. Consecrated in 2001 to serve in the Anglican Mission in the Americas, Barnum is now assisting bishop in the Diocese of the Carolinas. He was a key figure in and chronicler of the Anglican realignment in the United States. Education and early career Barnum received his seminary degree from Yale Divinity School. While in seminary, he began attending St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Darien, Connecticut, under rector Terry Fullam. St. Paul's was a hub of the charismatic renewal movement in the Episcopal Church in the 1970s. It was at St. Paul's that Barnum met Erilynne Forsberg, twenty years his senior. They married in 1981, and both Barnums served under Fullam until 1987. Erilynne would later be ordained as an Anglican deacon and launch a teaching ministry called Call2Disciple. In 1987, the Barnums moved to Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, where Thad Barnum was the founding rector of Princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convocation Of Anglicans In North America
The Church of Nigeria North American Mission (CONNAM) is a missionary body of the Church of Nigeria (CON). It has been in a ministry partnership with the Anglican Church in North America but no longer affiliated with it beyond mutual membership in GAFCON. Founded in 2005 as the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, it was composed primarily of churches that have disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA). CANA was initially a missionary initiative of the Anglican Church of Nigeria The Church of Nigeria is the Anglicanism, Anglican Church body, church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest Province (Anglican), province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptised membership (not by attendance), after the Church of Englan ... for Nigerians living in the United States. It joined several other church bodies in the formation of the Anglican Church in North America in 2009. In 2019, the dual jurisdiction arrangement with the ACNA came to an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onesphore Rwaje
Onesphore Rwaje (born June 6, 1953, in the Sector of Kinyababa, Burera District, Northern Province of Rwanda) is a Rwandan Anglican bishop. He was the Primate of the Anglican Church of Rwanda from 2011 to 2018. He is married and has five children. Ecclesiastical career Rwaje has a M.A. in Theology and Development Studies from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a doctorate in theology in the area of leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, United States. Rwaje was ordained a deacon on July 28, 1985, and a priest on July 27, 1986. He was nominated as a residential canon at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Kigali in 1989. He was elected the first bishop of the Diocese of Byumba, in August 1991, being consecrated on November 24, 1991. He became Dean of the Province of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda in 1995. He was elected Archbishop of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and bishop of the newly created Diocese of Gasabo on September 17, 2010. His install ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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