Media release: The Right Rev. David Anderson, assisting bishop for the Anglican Diocese of the South, will preach, celebrate the Eucharist, and confirm members at the 9 a.m. service at South Broad United Methodist Church, where St. Andrew's Anglican Church meets.
Bishop Anderson pastored churches in five different states and dioceses in the Episcopal Church for 32 years, before retiring for the first time in 2002. Since 2001 he has served as president and CEO of the Atlanta-based American Anglican Council, an organization that supports orthodox Christian belief and biblical authority within American churches associated with the Anglican Communion.
Ordained a deacon in 1970 and a priest in 1971, he transferred to the Anglican Church in Nigeria in 2006, and was consecrated a bishop in 2007 to support that church's parishes in the United States.
He retired as a Nigerian bishop in January of this year, but continues his service assisting the Rt. Rev. Foley Beach, diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South. Bishop Anderson is one of the founders of the present Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), of which Rome's St. Andrew's is a part. He is in ACNA's college of bishops and its archbishop's cabinet.
Bishop Anderson earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and his divinity degree from Virginia Theological Seminary.
A nursery will be provided during the service, and there will be a coffee hour afterward.
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