The Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer is a canonical office in some

Anglican churches The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...

, including the

Anglican Church of Canada The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC or ACoC) is the Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French-language name is ''l'Église anglicane du Canada''. In 2017, the Anglican Church co ...

and

The Episcopal Church The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine Ecclesiastical provinces and dioces ...

, responsible for maintaining official texts of the

Book of Common Prayer The ''Book of Common Prayer'' (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The original book, published in 1549 in the reign ...

Custodians in Canada

*William James Armitage (February 6, 1860 – 1929)

Custodians in the United States

The office was established in 1892 by the

General Convention The General Convention is the primary governing and legislative body of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. With the exception of the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Constitution and Canons, it is the ultimate authority ...

, when the First Standard Book was also adopted. # Benjamin Isaac Haight, 1868–1879 # Francis Harrison, 1880–1885 # Samuel Hart, 1886–1917 # Lucien Moore Robinson, 1917–1933 # John Wallace Suter, 1934–1942 # John Wallace Suter, Jr., 1942–1962 # Charles Mortimer Guilbert, 1963-1998 # Gregory Michael Howe, 2000-2015 # Juan M. Cabrero-Oliver, 2015–2022 #

J. Neil Alexander John Neil Alexander (born January 23, 1954) is a bishop and the Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer in The Episcopal Church. He is Professor of Liturgy, Emeritus, and Quintard Professor of Theology, Emeritus, in the School of Theolo ...

, 2022–present

References

Episcopal Church (United States) Book of Common Prayer Anglican Church of Canada {{Anglicanism-stub