This blog is for occasional posts about my work as a Bishop of the United Episcopal Church of North America, and for thoughts about the office and work of an Anglican Bishop. I guess you could call me a "mere Anglican" so you won't find much here about how to be more Roman than the Pope, but you will find something about how this bishop goes about his duties, and some "wry and affectionate commentary" about the Episcopal Office within the Anglican tradition.
The name "Apron and Gaiters" comes from the old distinguishing dress of the Anglican hierarchy. Up until the 1970s, bishops, archdeacons and (cathedral) deans wore a knee-length cassock called an "apron" under a frock coat, and gaiters. This adaption of clerical dress came about because in former times they had spent a lot of time on horseback touring their dioceses and archdeaconries. The full get-upwas never popular in the USA, but it was regarded as almost indespensible elsewhere, so much so that "gaiters" were at one time the identifying mark of the Church Hierarch.
About Me
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- I was born in North Lincolnshire, read history and theology at York St John, and was ordained as a Continuing Anglican clergyman in the UK in 1994 after studying at Holyrood Seminary, NY. I came to the USA in 1999, and have been Vicar of Good Shepherd Anglican Church, Waynesboro, VA since March 2018, having previous held parishes in Virginia and Arizona. I was consecrated as a Bishop of the United Episcopal Church January 10 2009. I served as a suffragan bishop from January to November 2009, then became Bishop of the (revived) Missionary District of the West, and was translated to the Eastern Missionary District in 2017. I became Presiding Bishop of the United Episcopal Church in September 2010. Please do not reproduce my articles without permission as this may be an infringement of both Blogger's T&Cs and U.S Intellectual Property and Copyright Laws.