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Raymond Ronny Sutton (born 1950) is an American Anglican bishop. He was bishop coadjutor in the Diocese of Mid-America of the Reformed Episcopal Church, since 1999, a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America, in 2009. He is the former Rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in Dallas, Texas, president and Professor of Scripture and Theology at Cranmer Theological House in Houston, Texas, and headmaster of Holy Communion Christian Academy (formerly Bent Tree Episcopal School).[1] Sutton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and moved to Dallas at age thirteen.
Ray Sutton | |
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Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church | |
Church | Reformed Episcopal Church, Anglican Church in North America |
Diocese | Mid-America |
In office | 2016–present |
Predecessor | Royal U. Grote Jr. |
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Consecration | July 29, 1999 by Leonard W. Riches |
Personal details | |
Born | Raymond Ronny Sutton August 28, 1950 |
Spouse | Susan Jean Schaerdel |
Children | 7 |
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He is currently head of the Ecumenical Relations Committee of the Anglican Church of North America.[2][3]
He took over the leadership of the Reformed Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Mid-America on November 24, 2016, upon the death of Royal U. Grote Jr., on a provisional level, with his installation taking place on June 15, 2017.[3][4][5]
Sutton is married to Susan Jean Schaerdel of Dallas. They have seven children and four grandchildren.[3]
Sutton served in parish ministry from 1976 until 1991. He was a co-pastor with James B. Jordan of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tyler, Texas, which was a prominent church in the Christian Reconstructionist movement. Other members included Gary North and David Chilton. The church belonged to the Westminster Presbyterian Church of the Association of Reformation Churches in America. North praised Sutton for uncovering that Meredith G. Kline's five-point covenant model applied to the whole Bible, and that it applies to three covenant institutions of family, state and church.[6][7][8]
Sutton served as Dean and Associate Professor of New Testament at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia from 1991 until 1995; and Dean and Professor of Theology at Cranmer Theological House in Shreveport, Louisiana from 1995 until 2001. Since the Synod of the Reformed Episcopal Diocese of Mid America in February 2013, he is once again the president of Cranmer Theological House based in the Houston area. Cranmer House also supports a satellite campus in Dallas at Sutton's parish, The Church of the Holy Communion (The DMA Pro Cathedral).
Sutton was ordained a bishop coadjutor of the Reformed Episcopal Church in 1999 and arrived at the Church of the Holy Communion in 2001.
Sutton has authored several theology works:
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