STEVE WOOD ELECTED THIRD ARCHBISHOP OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA 

The College of Bishops, meeting in Latrobe, PA, today elected Steve Wood as the new head of the ACNA. Wood is the bishop of the ACNA Diocese of the Carolinas and rector of St. Andrew's Church, Mt. Pleasant SC. The Diocese of the Carolinas overlaps the territory of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina. The II bishop of the ADSC, Chip Edgar, came from the Diocese of the Carolinas having served as the dean of the diocesan cathedral in Columbia.

Wood led St. Andrew's out of the old Diocese of South Carolina before the schism of 2012 after the diocesan leadership at the time had signaled its blessings. He had become a prominent critic of the Episcopal Church and had even hosted a grilling of the Presiding Bishop in a meeting of the clergy with her at St. Andrew's in 2008.

Wood takes office on 28 June. 

Find the announcement HERE .