Craig Loya

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The Right Reverend

Craig Loya
Bishop of Minnesota
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Loya in 2020
Church The Episcopal Church
Diocese Minnesota
ElectedJanuary 25, 2020
In office2020–present
Predecessor Brian Prior
Orders
Ordination2003
ConsecrationJune 6, 2020
by  Brian Prior
Personal details
Born (1977-04-05) April 5, 1977 (age 47)
Nationality American
Denomination Anglican
Spouse
Melissa Tubbs
​
(m. 2004)​
Children2
Alma mater Hastings College

Craig William Loya (born April 5, 1977) is the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. He was formerly Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska. [1]

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Life and career

Loya was raised in Nebraska where he graduated from North Platte High School and Hastings College. [2] He earned a Master of Divinity from Yale in conjunction with Berkeley Divinity School in 2002. [3] He and Melissa Tubbs married in 2004. [4] They have two children. [3]

On January 25, 2020, the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, the Episcopal Church in Minnesota diocesan convention elected him on the second ballot from a slate of five candidates. [5] On the ember day of June 6, 2020, he was ordained as the tenth bishop of Minnesota at the Cathedral of St. Mark in Minneapolis. [6] [7] Brian Prior, the ninth bishop of Minnesota, served as chief consecrator. [8] Joseph Scott Barker and Bruce Edward Caldwell were the co-consecrators. [9]

Loya is a member of the Society of Catholic Priests, an Anglo-Catholic association of clergy in The Episcopal Church. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Minnesota elects Craig Loya its 10th bishop". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  2. ↑ Wetzel, Diane (August 4, 2013). "Neb. native called by God to return home". The North Platte Telegraph. North Platte, Nebraska. Loya, the son of Ernie Loya and JaNelle Hovie, both of North Platte, graduated from North Platte High School in 1995.
  3. 1 2 "Craig Loya, M.Div". Yale Divinity School. Yale University. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  4. ↑ "Tubbs-Loya". The North Platte Telegraph. North Platte, Nebraska. January 3, 2005. Melissa Tubbs, daughter of Dale and Janet Tubbs of Lincoln, and Craig Loya, son of Ernie Loya and JaNelle Hovie of North Platte, were married Aug. 14, 2004, at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Lincoln with the Bishop Creighton Robertson of South Dakota officiating.
  5. ↑ Petersen, Kirk (January 27, 2020). "Craig Loya Elected X Bishop of Minnesota from 5-Person Slate". The Living Church.
  6. ↑ "Bishop Roundup: Pittsburgh, Alabama, Minnesota, Taiwan". The Living Church. December 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Bishop-elect Craig Loya". Minnesota Bishop Search. The Episcopal Church in Minnesota. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020. The Very Rev. Craig Loya Elected 10th Bishop of ECMN
  8. ↑ Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs (May 5, 2020). "Presiding Bishop announces chief consecrators for the ordinations and consecrations of bishops in the Episcopal dioceses of Georgia, Minnesota, and Oklahoma". Episcopal News Service.
  9. ↑ Episcopal Church in Minnesota (June 6, 2020). "THE ORDINATION & CONSECRATION of the Very Reverend Craig Loya, Tenth Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota" (PDF).
  10. ↑ Loya, Craig (March 22, 2019). "Living a Eucharist-centered Life". Tracts for the Times. Society of Catholic Priests. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
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