Mark MacDonald (bishop)

Mark MacDonald
Former National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop
ChurchAnglican Church of Canada
In office2007–2022
SuccessorChris Harper
Other post(s)WCC President for North America (2013–present)
Bishop of Alaska, Episcopal Church (1997–2007)
Orders
Ordination1 August 1979
by Robert Marshall Anderson
Consecration13 September 1997
by Edmond L. Browning
Laicized20 April 2022
Personal details
Born
Mark Lawrence MacDonald

(1954-01-15) 15 January 1954 (age 70)
DenominationAnglicanism

Mark Lawrence MacDonald (born 15 January 1954) is a former Anglican bishop in the United States and Canada. From 2007 to 2022, he served as the National Indigenous Anglican Bishop (Archbishop, from 2019) for the Anglican Church of Canada;[1] as such, he had pastoral oversight over all indigenous Canadian Anglicans. In April 2022, he resigned and relinquished his ministry following acknowledged sexual misconduct.[2]

MacDonald previously served in the Episcopal Church in the United States as Bishop of Alaska (1997 to 2007) and as assistant bishop of the Navajoland Area Mission (2007 to 2009).

  1. ^ "Biography: Bishop Mark L. MacDonald". Anglican Church of Canada. The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Public Announcement of the Resignation of Archbishop Mark MacDonald". 20 April 2022.