Steve Breedlove
Steven Breedlove is an American bishop of the Anglican Church in North America.
He was born in Tyler, Texas. He attended Washington and Lee University and has the Master of Theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary. He served in parishes in the United States and Canada. He was the founding rector of All Saints Church, Chapel Hill - Durham, in North Carolina. He was also the founder and director of the Anglican Missional Pastor leadership program development.
He has been married to Sally since 1972 and they have five children and nine grandchildren.
After the withdrawal of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, Breedlove was unanimously elected the first Presider Bishop pro term of the PEARUSA, the new missionary district of the Anglican Church of Rwanda in the United States, a dual church body of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and the Anglican Church in North America, being installed on 11 June 2012. Bishop Breedlove's consecration took place on 29 October 2012, in Denver, Colorado, by Archbishop Robert Duncan.
He became the first diocesan bishop of the newly constituted Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope on 21 June 2016 upon the dissolution of PEARUSA resulting from its transfer from the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda to the Anglican Church in North America.
He is the co-writer, with his wife, Sally Breedlove, and Ralph and Jennifer Ennis, of The Shame Exchange - Trading Shame for God's Mercy and Freedom, on the subjects of shame and guilt.
