Keith Ackerman

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Keith Lynn Ackerman (born August 3, 1946 in McKeesport , Pennsylvania ) is a former Anglican Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America . He was the 8th Bishop of Quincy from 1994 to 2008, based in Peoria , Illinois.

Life

He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Marymount College , Salina, Kansas in 1971 and received his Master of Divinity in 1974 and Doctor of Divinity from Nashotah House Seminary in Nashotah, Wisconsin in 1994 . He was ordained a deacon in April 1974 and was ordained a priest in Long Island, Kansas by Bishop of Western Kansas William Davidson in December . From 1974 to 1976 he served as a curate at the Church of the Transfiguration in Freeport, New York and then as rector of St. Mary's Church in Charleroi , Pennsylvania and from 1989 rector of St. Mark's Church in Arlington , Texas. He was ordained bishop on June 24, 1994 by Edmond Lee Browning , Edward Harding MacBurney and Donald James Parsons in St. Paul's Cathedral in Peoria. Due to the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church, he resigned from the office of Bishop of Quincy on November 1, 2008. At the time, the majority of his diocese went over to the Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur de América , which does not ordain women. He married Joann Bevacqua on August 19, 1967 and has three children. Ackerman now lives in Keller , Texas and is the current president of Forward in Faith North America , an Anglo-Catholic movement. On October 16, 2009, the Presiding Bishop accepted Ackerman's resignation from the Episcopal Church. He is currently Episcopal Vicar for the Quincy Diocese of the Anglican Church in North America .

Books

  • 1992 - Why We Do What We Do: A Manual on the Eucharist , Dovetracts Publications
  • 1993 - The Work of the People: A Guide to the Eucharist , Dovetracts Publications
  • 2001 - (with Joann Ackerman) To God be the Glory: Growing Towards a Healthy Church , Dovetracts Publications

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personal data
SURNAME Ackerman, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ackerman, Keith Lynn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Bishop of the Episcopal Church
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH McKeesport