Meet Archbishop Steve Wood
Deborah Tepley hosts a conversation with Archbishop Steve Wood and his wife, Jacqueline, during one of the Provincial Assembly 2024 sessions.
WatchFriends,
What a joy it is to give thanks to God for Archbishop Steve Wood, our new Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).
In the Anglican Church, churches are gathered into regional groupings called dioceses, each led by a bishop. Dioceses are then gathered into national or continental groupings called provinces, each led by an Archbishop, also called the Primate.
In 2008, after decades of doctrinal and moral apostasy by American Episcopal and Canadian Anglican bishops, abandoning “the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3), the global orthodox (particularly Primates from Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, South America) gathered in Jerusalem, along with over 1,100 faithful bishops, clergy, and laity, at the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON).
GAFCON called for the formation of a new province in North America, and in 2009, the Anglican Church in North America was constituted.
Christ Church Plano hosted the investiture of the first ACNA Archbishop and Primate, Bob Duncan. When he retired after a faithful 5-year term, the College of Bishops elected Foley Beach as our second Archbishop, and Foley served the maximum two terms, totaling 10 years of faithful and sacrificial service.
During a prayerful conclave, the ACNA College of Bishops elected Steve Wood, Bishop of the Carolinas, to the office, which began on June 28, 2024 as the Provincial Cross was symbolically passed from the ACNA’s Second Primate to our Third.
Archbishop Steve is a faithful, joyful, and exceptional Gospel minister, who has led both a large church and his own diocese for many years. On a personal note, I am thrilled to serve under this man of integrity and vision.
Archbishop-emeritus Bob Duncan often reminded us about what this role really means. Since all Christians are slaves of God (or “bondservants” in Romans 1:1) and a bishop, by extension, is a slave of the slaves of God, that means an Archbishop could be best described as a slave of the slaves of the slaves of God.
This is the kind of servant leadership our church and world needs to see.
Join us in praying for Archbishop Steve, his wife Jackie, their children and grandchildren, and for our whole North American Church in this coming season.
