Raymond Ronny Sutton (born 1950) is an American Anglican bishop. He was

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in the Diocese of Mid-America of the

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, since 1999, a founding member of the

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, in 2009. He is the former Rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in

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, president and Professor of Scripture and Theology at Cranmer Theological House in

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, and headmaster of Holy Communion Christian Academy (formerly Bent Tree Episcopal School). Sutton was born in

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, and moved to Dallas at age thirteen. He is currently head of the Ecumenical Relations Committee of the Anglican Church of North America. He took over the leadership of the Reformed Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Mid-America on November 24, 2016, upon the death of Royal U. Grote Jr., on a provisional level, with his installation taking place on June 15, 2017.

Personal life

Sutton is married to Susan Jean Schaerdel of Dallas. They have seven children and four grandchildren.

Education

* Bachelor of Fine Arts .F.A.–

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in (1972) * Master of Theology h.M.–

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(1976) * Doctor of Philosophy

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, in association with

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(1998) * Doctor of Theology (hon.) – Central School of Religion * Doctor of Divinity (hon.) �
Cummins Theological Seminary

Career

Church of the Holy Communion in North Dallas, Texas

Sutton served in parish ministry from 1976 until 1991. He was a co-pastor with

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of Westminster Presbyterian Church in

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, which was a prominent church in the

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movement. Other members included Gary North and

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. The church belonged to the Westminster Presbyterian Church of the

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in America. North praised Sutton for uncovering that

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's five-point covenant model applied to the whole Bible, and that it applies to three covenant institutions of family, state and church. Sutton served as Dean and Associate Professor of New Testament at the

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in Philadelphia from 1991 until 1995; and Dean and Professor of Theology at

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in Shreveport, Louisiana from 1995 until 2001. Since the Synod of the Reformed Episcopal Diocese of Mid America in February 2013, he is once again the president of Cranmer Theological House based in the Houston area. Cranmer House also supports a satellite campus in Dallas at Sutton's parish, The Church of the Holy Communion (The DMA Pro Cathedral). Sutton was ordained a bishop coadjutor of the Reformed Episcopal Church in 1999 and arrived at the Church of the Holy Communion in 2001.

Works

Sutton has authored several theology works: * The Sacramental Theology of Daniel Waterland (Doctoral Thesis—Coventry University), 1998. * ''Signed, Sealed and Delivered: A Study of Holy Baptism'', Classical Anglican Press, Houston, TX (2001).
''Captains and Courts, a Biblical Defense of Episcopal Government''
* ''Second Chance: Biblical Principals of Divorce and Remarriage, Biblical Hope for the Divorced, Biblical Blueprint Series Vol. #10'', The Institute for Christian Economics, (1988). * ''That You May Prosper : Dominion by Covenant'', The Institute for Christian Economics, (1987).
''Who Owns the Family? : God or the State? Biblical Blueprint Series Vol. #03''
Dominion Press, Ft. Worth, TX, (1986). * Ray Sutton,

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, Victoria T. deVries, Michael Gilstrap, '' Power for Living'', Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, (1983).

Articles

Sutton, Ray R. "Covenantal Evil." Covenant Renewal 2 (1988) 4.
* Sutton, Ray R. "Oath and Symbol." Covenant Renewal 3 (1989) 4: 1–4. * Sutton, Ray R. "Clothing and Calling." in The Reconstruction of the Church. Christianity and Civilization Vol 4. ed.

. Tyler, Texas: Geneva Ministries, (1985). * Sutton, Ray R. "The Saturday Night Church and the Liturgical Nature of Man." in The Reconstruction of the Church. Christianity and Civilization Vol 4. ed.

: Geneva Ministries, (1985). * Ray R. Sutton, "The Church as a Shadow Government," Christianity and Civilization III: Tactics of Christian Resistance, Geneva Divinity School, (1983). * Ray Sutton, "The Baptist Failure", Christianity & Civilization,

, ed., Geneva Divinity School, (1982).

Editor

* ''What is Anglicanism?'', Latimer Press (2004), by Mark F. M. Clavier, co-edited by Ray Sutton and Peter C. Moore.

References

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