Steven Allen Breedlove (born 1950) is an American prelate of the

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. He was elected as the first Presider Bishop of

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, a missionary district that was formerly part of the

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, in 2012. In 2016, Breedlove became the first diocesan bishop of the

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Biography

Breedlove was born in

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to First Lieutenant James Robby Breedlove and Paula Kent. He graduated from Robert E. Lee High School and attended

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for undergraduate studies. He then obtained Master of Theology and Doctor of Ministry degrees from

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, 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

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pastor for 29 years prior to converting to

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in 2001. In 2005, Breedlove was ordained as a priest of the

and served as a pastor at the Church of the Apostles. Later that year, he founded All Saints Church in

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, serving as the church's

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. He was also the founder and director of the Anglican Missional Pastor leadership program developed for men and women entering ordained ministry. After the withdrawal of the

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, Breedlove was unanimously elected the first Presider Bishop ''pro tem'' of

, the new missionary district of the

in the United States, a dual church body of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and the

, and was appointed by Archbishop

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. He was installed on 11 June 2012. Bishop Breedlove's consecration took place on 29 October 2012, in

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, by Archbishop Robert Duncan.Steve Breedlove Consecrated First Bishop of PEARUSA, San Francisco Anglicans, 21 November 2012
/ref> Breedlove became the first diocesan bishop of the newly constituted

on 21 June 2016 upon the dissolution of

resulting from its transfer from the

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to the

. On Thursday June 17, 2021 the College of Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America elected Alan Hawkins as Bishop Coadjutor of the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope. Hawkins will serve alongside Breedlove until Breedlove transitions out of episcopal ministry. He has been married to Sally Breedlove, a writer, since 1972 and they have five children and fourteen grandchildren. In 2009, Breedlove co-wrote the book ''The Shame Exchange - Trading Shame for God's Mercy and Freedom'' with his wife and Ralph and Jennifer Ennis.

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. , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Breedlove, Steve Living people 21st-century Anglican bishops in the United States Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America Christians from Texas Converts to Anglicanism from Congregationalism Dallas Theological Seminary alumni Former evangelicals People from Tyler, Texas Religious leaders from Texas Washington and Lee University alumni 1950 births