Foley Beach (born 1959) is an American Anglican bishop. He is the second Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), elected on 21 June 2014 and taking office on 28 June 2014. His enthronement took place on 9 October 2014. He is married and has two adult children.
Early life and ministry
Beach is a graduate of Georgia State University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and the School of Theology at the University of the South. He was previously a priest in the Episcopal Church, which he left following the consecration of V. Gene Robinson in 2004.
Beach is the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South, a newly formed diocese of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), as well as rector and pastor of Holy Cross Anglican Church in Loganville, Georgia, since its founding, from February 2004 to December 2013. It became the diocese's pro-cathedral in 2010.
After the formation of ACNA, in June 2009, Beach was elected the leader of a group of parishes in the Southeast and was consecrated as the first bishop of the Diocese of the South on October 9, 2010.
Archbishop of ACNA
Beach was elected the second Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America after a three days conclave held at the crypt of the Roman Catholic Basilica of St. Vincent Archabbey, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, by unanimous vote of the College of the Bishops, on 21 June 2014. He took office at the conclusion of the Provincial Assembly of ACNA on 25 June 2014. His investiture took place at the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, on 9 October 2014, with a large attendance of 2000 people and seven Anglican archbishops, who afterwards recognized him as a fellow primate and archbishop of the Anglican Communion. According to the traditional instruments of communion and the Archbishop of Canterbury, ACNA is not a member of the Anglican Communion.
Beach opposes the ordination of women, unlike his predecessor, but subscribes to the right of each diocese to their own decision on the matter. He is keen in following Robert Duncan's main prerogatives, including social engagement, church planting, ecumenism and full integration into the Anglican Communion, with the support of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and the Global South (Anglican).
Beach held shortly after his investiture an eighteen-day journey that took him to the Church of the Province of South East Asia, the Church of the Province of Myanmar and the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, from 11 to 29 November 2014. The main purpose of the journey was to strengthen the ties between ACNA and these three Anglican realignment churches. He first visited the Church of the Province of South East Asia, from 11 to 14 November 2014, where he took part with a 37 members delegation of the ACNA at a Mission Consultations Roundtable held at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Singapore, also meeting Archbishop Bolly Lapok and visiting both Singapore and Malaysia. He followed this with a visit to the Church of the Province of Myanmar, where he was welcomed by Archbishop Stephen Than, and to the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, meeting Archbishop Glenn Davies, who invited him to preach at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney.
References
External links
- Diocese of the South
- Foley Beach audio ministry
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