Ray R. Sutton

The Most Reverend Ray Sutton
Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church
Church	Reformed Episcopal Church, Anglican Church in North America
Diocese	Diocese of Mid-America
In office	1999-present
Orders
Consecration	1999 by Leonard W. Riches

Ray R. Sutton is an American Anglican bishop. He was bishop coadjutor in the Diocese of Mid-America of the Reformed Episcopal Church, since 1999, a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America, in 2009. He is also Rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in Dallas, Texas, president and Professor of Scripture and Theology at Cranmer Theological House in Houston, Texas, and headmaster of Holy Communion Christian Academy (formerly Bent Tree Episcopal School). Sutton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and moved to Dallas at age thirteen.

He is currently head of the Ecumenical Relations Committee of the Anglican Church of North America.

He took over the leadership of the REC and the Diocese of Mid-America on 24 November 2016 upon the death of the Most Rev. Royal U. Grote, Jr., on a provisional level, with his installation taking place on 15 June 2017..

Sutton is married to Susan Jean Schaerdel of Dallas. They have seven children and three grandchildren.

Sutton served in parish ministry from 1976 until 1991. He was a co-pastor with James B. Jordan of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tyler, Texas, which was a prominent church in the Christian Reconstructionist movement. Other members included Gary North and David Chilton. The church belonged to the Westminster Presbyterian Church of the Association of Reformation Churches in America. North praised Sutton for uncovering that Meredith G. Kline's five-point covenant model applied to the whole Bible, and that it applies to three covenant institutions of family, state and church.

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