Another former Episcopal Church bishop has been received into the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).
Retired Bishop Daniel W. Herzog of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany resigned his orders in the Episcopal Church and was received into the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word (ADLW) this week. The April 10 announcement came one week after Herzog’s successor, Bishop William H. Love, was received into ACNA to serve as an Assisting Bishop for ADLW.
“Bishop Herzog’s extensive experience is a tremendous blessing to the Church and we anticipate that the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word will benefit greatly from his ministry as he serves in his episcopal capacity,” read the statement from Herzog’s new diocese.
Herzog will celebrate his first service of Holy Communion with the ADLW at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Syracuse, NY on April 18.
The announcement follows March news that several clergy in the Albany diocese are in the process of being licensed for ministry within the ADLW. It also builds momentum for the creation of an Anglican regional ministry network that will “place a strong emphasis on church planting and ministries in the [Capital] Region and surrounding areas of New York.”
The Anglican diocese will announce later this month about its plan to support and minister to congregations and church plants in the Capital Region of New York State, according to ADLW Communications Director the Rev. Marc Steele.
Herzog joins retired Diocese of Central Florida Bishop John Howe and retired Suffragan Bishop William Jones Skilton of South Carolina. Howe was received into the ordained ministry of the ACNA in July 2020, Skilton was received in December 2020.
In his final weeks in office as diocesan bishop for Albany, Herzog in 2007 transferred his then-bishop suffragan, David Bena, to the Church of Nigeria, which assigned him to the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, a subjurisdiction that helped form ACNA in 2009.
Comment by Star Tripper on April 12, 2021 at 1:35 pm
When the ACNA was created I saw it as the possible salvation of Anglicism in the West by the faithful in Africa. Those faithful who are the fruit of missionary seeds planted long ago when European and American Anglicism was made of sterner stuff. I pray that the same will happen to Methodism as they too have faithful and true followers in Africa who resist the evils infesting western Methodism.