Christianity: Details about 'J Neil Alexander'
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The Right Reverend John Neil Alexander is the 9th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, being elected to that office March 31, 2001. On July 7, 2001, Bishop Alexander was installed as bishop in a service at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, Georgia.
BackgroundBishop Alexander was born Jan 23, 1954, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1976 he married Lynn Tesh Alexander, a pediatric nurse practitioner. He graduated from Moravian College in 1976 with a B.A. in Music. In 1979, he graduated the University of South Carolina with a Master of Music. In 1980, Bishop Alexander earned a Master of Divinity from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. He was ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after that in the North Carolina Synod. His first parish was Faith Lutheran Church in Murray Hill, New Jersey. From there, Bishop Alexander became Professor of Liturgics and Spirituality and Dean of Keffer Memorial Chapel at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. In 1993, Alexander received a Th. D. in liturgics from General Theological Seminary in New York City. Soon afterward, Alexander served as the Trinity Church Professor of Liturgics and Preaching at General Theological Seminary, also serving in a variety of parish settings. Prior to becoming bishop, Alexander had moved to the School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee where he served as the Norma and Olin Mills Professor of Divinity. He was also Priest-in-Charge at St. Agnes' Church in Cowan, Tennessee. In January of 2006, Bishop Alexader was nominated for the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Church. Consecrators
N.B.: 968th bishop consecrated in the Episcopal Church. PublicationsBishop Alexander is the author of a number of publications in the fields of liturgics, homiletics, sacramental theology, and pastoral practice, including a number of his sermons.
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