Richard Lipka

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Richard W. Lipka
Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of All Saints
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Church Anglican Church in North America
In office2021-present
Predecessor William Ilgenfritz
Orders
Ordination17 December 1966
by  Francis F. Reh
Consecration4 August 1995
Personal details
Born (1940-10-22) October 22, 1940 (age 83)
Wilmington, Delaware
Previous post(s)
Alma mater Saint Mary’s College
Pontifical Gregorian University
St. Mary’s Seminary
University of Maryland
Pontifical North American College

Richard Walter Lipka (born 1940) is an American Anglican bishop. Lipka served as a Roman Catholic and Episcopal priest before being consecrated in the Charismatic Episcopal Church. He has served since 2021 as bishop ordinary of the Missionary Diocese of All Saints, an Anglo-Catholic diocese in the Anglican Church in North America. He is a significant figure in the Episcopal charismatic renewal movement and the Anglican realignment.

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Early life and education

Lipka was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Adam Lipka and Mary Deptula Lipka. He was raised in the Catholic Church at St. Hedwig's Parish in Wilmington. [1] He graduated from St. Mary's College in Michigan and received an M.A. from St. Mary's Seminary. Lipka also earned an S.T.B. from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. [2] While studying at the Pontifical North American College, Lipka was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1966, then returned to serve as a parish priest in the Diocese of Wilmington. [1]

Move to Anglicanism

In 1971, Lipka was received by Harry Lee Doll as a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. [3] He served as a curate at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Annapolis, one of the original 30 Episcopal parishes in Maryland. [4] After leaving the Catholic priesthood, Lipka married Susan and they had four children. [2]

From 1972 to 1989, Lipka served as rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in the Hampden area of Baltimore. [5] During this time, he became engaged in the charismatic renewal movement in the Episcopal Church. [2] He also hosted Regeneration, a ministry to same-sex attracted Christians, and served on its board. [6] In 1989, Lipka moved to Hawaii to serve as rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Honolulu. In 1994, Lipka and a majority of St. Mary's members voted to leave the Episcopal Church as part of the then-nascent Anglican realignment and join the two-year-old Charismatic Episcopal Church, which was formed out of the convergence movement blending charismatic and liturgical worship. [5] "Over the last several years," he said at the time, "I and many of the members of St. Mary's [in Honolulu] have felt more and more marginalized and disenfranchised from the mainstream of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. We no longer felt a part of the family." [7]

Episcopal ministry

On 4 August 1995, Lipka was consecrated as a bishop in the Charismatic Episcopal Church. [2] He served as bishop of the Diocese of the Hawaiian Islands and the American Protectorates. On 5 November 1997, Lipka was conditionally re-consecrated by Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez when the CEC entered into intercommunion with the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church. [8] (All CEC clergy were reconsecrated and reordained by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church through the episcopal genealogy of Carlos Duarte Costa. [9] )

In 2006, as part of a schism in the CEC, Lipka and the Diocese of the Delmarva disassociated from the CEC and became part of the Communion of Christ the Redeemer, which was affiliated with the Anglican Province of America and seeking to be integrated into it as of 2008. [10] Lipka served as president of the COCTR. [11] By 2011, 15 of 21 COCTR congregations were no longer affiliated with the APA but had rather joined the newly formed ACNA Missionary Diocese of All Saints (MDAS), with Lipka being appointed bishop suffragan. [12]

In 2018, amid concerns that the relatively small size of MDAS might make it difficult to elect its own bishop when the sitting bishops retired and MDAS objections to women's ordination in other ACNA dioceses, Lipka held out the possibility of MDAS joining the old Catholic Union of Scranton alongside the Polish National Catholic Church and the Nordic Catholic Church. [13]

In 2021, Lipka succeeded William Ilgenfritz as MDAS' bishop ordinary. He serves as vice president of Forward in Faith North America, which promotes Anglo-Catholic worship and opposes women's ordination. [14] He also serves as rector of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Berlin, Maryland. [2] In 2024, the Missionary Diocese of All Saints will elect a bishop coadjutor to succeed Lipka upon his retirement. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Rev. R. W. Lipka Ordained at Rome". The News Journal. 17 December 1966.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Bishop Richard Lipka". Missionary Diocese of All Saints. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  3. ↑ Doll, Harry Lee (1971). "Invitation to the Reception of Richard Lipka".
  4. ↑ "Rectors & Clergy 325 Years — 1692-2017 rev Jan 2021" (PDF). St. Margaret's Church History and Archives. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  5. 1 2 "Rector in Honolulu and Parishioners Join Charismatic Episcopal Church". The Living Church. 209 (2): 7. 10 July 1994.
  6. ↑ Hartzell, Judith (2015). By God's Design Overcoming Same Sex Attraction - A True Story. Spring Hill, Fla.: Emerald House.
  7. ↑ Somerville, Frank (16 June 1994). "Episcopal rectors join charismatic denomination". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  8. ↑ Prüter, Karl (2007). Directory of Autocephalous Bishops of the Apostolic Succession (15th ed.). Borgo Press.
  9. ↑ Jarvis, Edward (2018). God, Land and Freedom: The True Story of ICAB. Berkeley, Calif.: Apocryphile Press. p. 168.
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  11. ↑ Grundorf, Walter. "Anglican Province of America Cuts Ties with Common Cause Partnership. Joins FACA" . Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  12. ↑ Spaulding, Wallace (20 December 2011). "Orthodox Anglicans Still Fractured But Maintain Identity, Strength". The Certain Trumpet. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  13. ↑ Virtue, David (9 April 2018). "MDAS Could Pull out of ACNA if Women's Ordination is Approved". Virtue Online. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  14. ↑ "FORWARD IN FAITH BLASTS KENYAN ARCHBISHOP OVER CONSECRATION OF WOMAN BISHOP". FIFNA. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  15. ↑ "BISHOP COADJUTOR NOMINATION". Missionary Diocese of All Saints. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
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