Jeffrey N. Steenson
Jeffrey Neil Steenson ( born April 1, 1952 in Camp Rucker, Dale County, Alabama ) is a former Anglican bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. He was from 2005 to 2007 the 8th Bishop of the Rio Grande. Since 2009 he is a Roman Catholic priest, since 1 January 2012, a full professor of the newly created Personal Ordinariate Chair of Peter.
Life
Jeffrey Steenson received his Master of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School (1978 ) in the subject New Testament, the Master of Arts degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ( 1976) in Church History and a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity International University ( 1974) in history. The completion of a doctor of philosophy he received in 1983 from the University of Oxford with his dissertation entitled Basil of Ancyra and the Course of Nicene Orthodoxy. In June 1979 he was ordained a deacon and received on June 29, 1980 his ordination. From 1983, he served as curate at All Saints' Church in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, and as rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont and since 1989 at the St. Andrew 's Church in Grand Prairie, Texas. On 16 January 2005 he was ordained by Terence Kelshaw and Mark Lawrence MacDonald and James Monte Stanton bishop after he was elected on 16 October 2004 to the Coadjutor Bishop. On 1 August 2005 he was followed by Terrence Kelshaw in the ministry of the Bishop of Rio Grande. He married on 16 March 1974, has three children with his wife, Debra.
The end of 2007 he joined the Roman Catholic Church, which is why he could not be more Episcopal bishop. Steenson was received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church in a private ceremony on December 1, 2007, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. He began studies at the Pontifical Irish College and the Pontifical Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas on campus in Rome. On 13 December 2008 he was ordained by Cardinal Bernard Law as a deacon. On 21 February 2009, he received the Roman Catholic priesthood by Archbishop Michael Jarboe Sheehan; He was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
On January 1, 2012, he was awarded the title of full professor Monsignor by Pope Benedict XVI. Personal Ordinariate established Chair of Peter ordered. He will hold this office without episcopal ordination, as a Zölibatsdispens for bishops is not possible. On 12 February 2012, he was installed in his office, apostolic prothonotary and a member of the U.S. Bishops' Conference.
Steenson now teaches Ancient Church History in Houston at the University of St. Thomas (UST ) and at St. Mary's Seminary. He has held the Carl and Lois Davis Visiting Professor in Patristic Studies.