Steve Breedlove

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The Right Reverend

Steve Breedlove
Former Presider Bishop of PEARUSA; Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope
ChurchAnglican Church in North America
DiocesePEARUSA (former missionary district of Anglican Church of Rwanda); Christ Our Hope (Anglican Church in North America)
In office2012–2021
PredecessorSee created
SuccessorAlan Hawkins
Orders
Ordination2005
Consecration29 October 2012
by Robert Duncan
Personal details
Born
Tyler, Texas, U.S.
SpouseSally Breedlove
Children5
EducationRobert E. Lee High School
Alma materWashington and Lee University
Dallas Theological Seminary

Steven A. Breedlove 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.[1][2] He graduated from Robert E. Lee High School and attended Washington and Lee University for undergraduate studies.[1] Has then obtained a Master of Theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.[1] He served in parishes in the United States and Canada. Breedlove served as a non-denominational Christian pastor for 29 years in the United States and Canada prior to converting to Anglicanism in 2001.[3]

In 2005, Breedlove was ordained as a priest of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and served as a pastor at the Church of the Apostles.[1] Later that year, he founded All Saints Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, serving as the church's rector.[3][4][1] He was also the founder and director of the Anglican Missional Pastor leadership program development for men and women entering ordained ministry.[5]

After the withdrawal of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, Breedlove was unanimously elected the first Presider Bishop pro term of the PEARUSA, the new missionary district of the Anglican Church of Rwanda in the United States, a dual church body of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and the Anglican Church in North America, and was appointed by Archbishop Onesphore Rwaje.[1][6] He was installed on 11 June 2012. Bishop Breedlove's consecration took place on 29 October 2012, in Denver, Colorado, by Archbishop Robert Duncan.[6]

Breedlove became the first diocesan bishop of the newly constituted Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope on 21 June 2016 upon the dissolution of PEARUSA resulting from its transfer from the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda to the Anglican Church in North America.[7][8]

On Thursday 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.[9] Hawkins will serve alongside Breedlove until Breedlove transitions out of episcopal ministry.[9]

He has been married to Sally Breedlove, a writer, since 1972 and they have five children and fourteen grandchildren.[3][10][11] 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.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Affiliation - Holy Trinity Anglican Church (Chapel Hill)". Church of the Holy Trinity.
  2. ^ "James Breedlove Obituary (2014) - Tyler, TX - Tyler Morning Telegraph". obituaries.tylerpaper.com.
  3. ^ a b c "Leadership | Christ the Redeemer".
  4. ^ "Our Bishops". Archived from the original on January 20, 2016.
  5. ^ "Blog – Page 12 – THE DIOCESE OF THE CAROLINAS".
  6. ^ a b Steve Breedlove Consecrated First Bishop of PEARUSA, San Francisco Anglicans, 21 November 2012
  7. ^ "Anglican Church in North America". anglicanchurch.net. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  8. ^ "Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope|HOME". Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
  9. ^ a b "College of Bishops Approves Two New Members". June 17, 2021.
  10. ^ "Sally Breedlove - About". www.sallybreedlove.com.
  11. ^ https://journeymates.org/about/

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