Chandler Holder Jones
Chandler Holder (Chad) Jones, SSC (born April 20, 1971) is an American Continuing Anglican bishop. He is the Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America (APA).
The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones | |
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| Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America and Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Eastern United States | |
Most Rev. Chandler Holder Jones, SSC | |
| Church | Anglican Province of America |
| Diocese | Diocese of the Eastern United States |
| In office | Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of the Eastern United States 2010 - 2019 Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of the Eastern United States 2019 - 2021 Bishop Ordinary Diocese of the Eastern United States 2021 - present Presiding Bishop 2021-present |
| Predecessor | Walter Howard Grundorf |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | December 21, 1996 by John Thayer Cahoon, Jr. |
| Consecration | September 18, 2010 by Walter Howard Grundorf |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 20, 1971 Greensboro, North Carolina |
He is a native of Elkin in Surry County, North Carolina, and a graduate of Emory and Henry College (BA) and Duke University Divinity School (MDiv). Additionally, he has studied English literature at Exeter College and University of Oxford in England, and Anglican history at the King’s School, Canterbury Cathedral.
A convert to the Continuing Anglican Church movement, he has been a Continuing Anglo-Catholic for over thirty years. He was ordained a priest on December 21, 1996, and has served congregations in Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Georgia. He was consecrated as Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of the Eastern United States in 2010 and elected Bishop Coadjutor in 2019. Upon Bishop Grundorf's retirement at the 53rd annual Synod of the Diocese of the Eastern United States held in Dunwoody Georgia, on July 22, 2021, Bishop Chandler Holder Jones was enthroned as the fourth Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Eastern United States at the newly designated Saint Barnabas Cathedral in Dunwoody, Georgia. The following day, July 23, 2021, Bishop Jones was elected by the Provincial Synod as the new Presiding Bishop of the Province, and was installed by the retired Presiding Bishop Grundorf at Saint Barnabas Cathedral. Presiding Bishop Jones now serves as the Primate of the Anglican Province of America, and Metropolitan of the APA affiliated Churches in India, Ecuador, the Philippines, and Haiti.
Jones addressed the International Catholic Congress of Anglicans in 2015, speaking on the topic of Anglican Catholic identity. Jones spoke at the Annual Anglican Theology Conference at Beeson Divinity School in 2018 about Anglo-Catholicism. The paper was published in The Future of Orthodox Anglicanism (Crossway, 2020).
Jones publishes on his personal blog, Philorthodox and has contributed articles to Earth & Altar. He has also regularly appeared on various podcasts, especially The Sacramentalists, where he was invited to speak on the topic of Anglican orders, the Formularies, Zionism, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. He also regularly appears on the podcast Mining the Mysteries, and has been interviewed by AnglicanTVMinistries.
He is married to Megan Baskwill Jones, and they have four children.