Foley Beach
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The Most Reverend Foley Beach |
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| Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America and Bishop of the South | |
| Church | Anglican Church in North America |
| In office | 2014–present |
| Predecessor | Robert Duncan |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | October 9, 2010 by Robert Duncan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 31, 1958 Atlanta, Georgia |
| Alma mater | |
Foley Thomas Beach (born October 31, 1958) is an American Anglican bishop. He is the second primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America. Foley was elected on June 21, 2014. His enthronement took place on October 9, 2014. He is married to Alison and they have two adult children.
Beach was born on October 31, 1958, in Atlanta, Georgia. He studied at Georgia State University in Atlanta, receiving a B.A. degree in 1980. A member of the Episcopal Church, Beach worked as a youth minister at the Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Philip, in Atlanta, from 1980 to 1987, and a lay associate at the Church of the Apostles, in Atlanta, from 1987 to 1989. Beach is a graduate of the School of Theology of the University of the South, where he received a M.Div. degree in 1992. He was ordained a deacon and a priest at the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta in 1992. He was nominated deacon, afterwards rector, of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, in Monroe, Georgia, where he served from 1992 to 2004. He left the Episcopal Church, following the consecration of Gene Robinson as the first non-celibate gay bishop of the Anglican Communion.
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, and it is now the cathedral church of both the Anglican Diocese of the South and of ACNA's primate. 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.
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