Neil Lebhar

The Right Reverend Neil Lebhar
Bishop of the Gulf Atlantic
Church	Anglican Church in North America
Diocese	Gulf Atlantic Diocese
In office	2010-present
Predecessor	See created
Successor	Incumbent
Orders
Consecration	February 13, 2010 by Archbishop Robert Duncan

Neil Gedney Lebhar is an American Anglican bishop. He is the first bishop of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese, a newly formed diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. He has been rector of the Anglican Church of the Redeemer in Jacksonville, Florida.

Lebhar was raised in Westport, Connecticut, the eldest son of a physician. He graduated from the Loomis School, where, as a senior, he was converted to Christianity in 1967 through FOCUS under the ministry of future Episcopalian bishop John W. Howe.

Lebhar married his wife, Marcia, in 1971. He graduated from Princeton University in 1972, served as field director for FOCUS, and received seminary degrees from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary. In 1979, Lebhar was appointed associate rector at Truro Church under John W. Howe. He served there until being called as rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Jacksonville, then a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida. Lebhar also served on the boards of Church's Ministry Among Jewish People and Shoresh, and as vice chairman of the 2000 Jacksonville Billy Graham Crusade.

In 2007, objecting to the consecration of Gene Robinson and the theological views of the TEC, Lebhar and several other clergy and parishes left the Diocese of Florida and sought canonical affiliation with the Church of Uganda. On March 25, 2008, Lebhar and 21 other clergy were deposed by Florida Bishop Samuel Johnson ("John") Howard.

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