Robert Duncan (bishop)
Robert William Duncan Junior ( born July 5, 1948 in Fort Dix, Bordentown, New Jersey ) is an American bishop. He is a former Anglican bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. Since 2009 he is a primate of the Anglican Church in North America ( ACNA ).
Life
After visiting the Bordentown Military Institute Robert Duncan made 1970 his Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Trinity College in Hartford, 1973 Doctor and Master of Divinity honoris causa at the General Theological Seminary in New York (along with Gene Robinson ) and studied while also Scottish history at the University of Edinburgh. On April 22, 1972 he was ordained a deacon and received on October 28, 1973 his ordination. His first appointments were at the Chapel of the Intercession in New York City, at the Grace Church in Merchantville, New Jersey and briefly at the Christian Church in Edinburgh. From 1974 to 1978 he served as associate dean at the Major Seminary. He spent the next four years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an Assistant Rector. From 1982 he worked for 10 years as rector of St. Thomas parish in Newark. In 1990 he was a candidate for the Episcopal Bishop of Colorado. The conservative bishop of Pittsburgh Alden Moinet Hathaway made him in 1992 to his canons and coadjutor in 1995. On September 13, 1997 Duncan was ordained by Edmond Lee Browning and Alden Moinet Hathaway and Peter James Lee Bishop and was the successor of Alden Moinet Hathaway to 7. Bishop of Pittsburgh of the Episcopal Church.
Duncan quickly became head of a group of conservative evangelical bishops within the Episcopal Church. So he expressed criticism at the consecration of gay bishop Gene Robinson. After the confirmation of the election of Bishop Robinson in 2003, Duncan brought as a spokesman for a group of conservative bishops and lay his regret in a press conference to express. 2004 Duncan leader of the Anglican Communion Network, a theologically conservative action group that advocates a realignment of the Anglican dioceses and parishes.
On 15 January 2008, claiming in a letter from the House of Bishops, Duncan had abandoned the communion with the Church. In a letter of 14 March Duncan denied that his alleged accusations. On 18 September 2008 he was deposed as bishop. Immediately thereafter, he became bishop of the Iglesia Anglicana del Cono in Sur de América. The majority of his diocese Pittsburgh followed their bishop and resigned from the Episcopal Church of the United States of America and joined the Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur de América on. Thus, the Diocese of Pittsburgh split. On 7 November 2008 Duncan was re-elected bishop of this new diocese of Pittsburgh, which went up in the Anglican Church of North America, 2009. On 21 June 2009, the bishops of the Anglican Church in North America elected him Archbishop and Primate and thus to the head of this Church. He was installed at Christ Church in Plano, Texas on June 25, 2009. At the ceremony were conservative Anglicans from the developing countries by the Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, the Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Kenya African, represented.
Duncan married on 16 August 1969, with Nara Dewar Elizabeth a daughter.