Kenneth Erik Ross (born 1964) is an American

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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

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(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

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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 Anglican Church in North America the year before—left full membership, changing its status in ACNA to "ministry partner." By the next year, the relationship between Chuck Murphy, the leader of AMIA, and its province of canonical residence, the

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, had broken down, and Murphy and all but two AMIA bishops removed AMIA from Rwandan jurisdiction and restructured it as a "missionary society." In early 2012, a majority of AMIA congregations elected to remain canonically in the Rwandan church and pursue full membership and "dual citizenship" in the ACNA, forming

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 ...

. Ross was a member of the steering committee for PEARUSA and was elected to serve as bishop of PEARUSA's western network. He was consecrated as a bishop in 2013 and continued to serve as rector of IAC until 2015. In 2015, the Anglican Church of Rwanda transferred PEARUSA congregations to sole ACNA jurisdiction. PEARUSA's western network was reconstituted as the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains, with Ross as its first diocesan bishop.

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, - Living people Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America 1964 births {{anglican-bishop-stub