Craig Loya Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Craig Loya
Bishop of Minnesota
Diocese:Minnesota
Elected:January 25, 2020
Enthroned:June 6, 2020
Term:2020–present
Predecessor:Brian Prior
Ordination:2003
Consecration:June 6, 2020
Consecrated By:Brian Prior
Birth Date:5 April 1977
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Children:2
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Alma Mater:Hastings College

Craig William Loya (born April 5, 1977) is the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. He was formerly Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska.[1]

Life and career

Loya was raised in Nebraska where he graduated from North Platte High School and Hastings College.[2] He earned a Master of Divinity from Yale in conjunction with Berkeley Divinity School in 2002.[3] He and Melissa Tubbs married in 2004.[4] They have two children.

On January 25, 2020, the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, the Episcopal Church in Minnesota diocesan convention elected him on the second ballot from a slate of five candidates.[5] On the ember day of June 6, 2020, he was ordained as the tenth bishop of Minnesota at the Cathedral of St. Mark in Minneapolis.[6] [7] Brian Prior, the ninth bishop of Minnesota, served as chief consecrator.[8] Joseph Scott Barker and Bruce Edward Caldwell were the co-consecrators.[9]

Loya is a member of the Society of Catholic Priests, an Anglo-Catholic association of clergy in The Episcopal Church.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. News: . Minnesota elects Craig Loya its 10th bishop . Episcopal News Service . 2020-01-27.
  2. News: Wetzel . Diane . Neb. native called by God to return home . The North Platte Telegraph . North Platte, Nebraska . August 4, 2013 . Loya, the son of Ernie Loya and JaNelle Hovie, both of North Platte, graduated from North Platte High School in 1995..
  3. Web site: Craig Loya, M.Div. . . Yale Divinity School . Yale University . 2020-01-31.
  4. News: . Tubbs-Loya . The North Platte Telegraph . North Platte, Nebraska . January 3, 2005 . Melissa Tubbs, daughter of Dale and Janet Tubbs of Lincoln, and Craig Loya, son of Ernie Loya and JaNelle Hovie of North Platte, were married Aug. 14, 2004, at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Lincoln with the Bishop Creighton Robertson of South Dakota officiating..
  5. News: Petersen . Kirk . Craig Loya Elected X Bishop of Minnesota from 5-Person Slate . The Living Church . January 27, 2020.
  6. News: . Bishop Roundup: Pittsburgh, Alabama, Minnesota, Taiwan . The Living Church . December 4, 2019.
  7. Web site: Bishop-elect Craig Loya . . Minnesota Bishop Search . The Episcopal Church in Minnesota . 25 January 2020 . The Very Rev. Craig Loya Elected 10th Bishop of ECMN . 25 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200125225809/https://mnbishopsearch.org/bishop-elect-craig-loya/ . dead .
  8. Web site: Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs . Presiding Bishop announces chief consecrators for the ordinations and consecrations of bishops in the Episcopal dioceses of Georgia, Minnesota, and Oklahoma . Episcopal News Service . May 5, 2020.
  9. Web site: THE ORDINATION & CONSECRATION of the Very Reverend Craig Loya, Tenth Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota . Episcopal Church in Minnesota . June 6, 2020.
  10. Web site: Living a Eucharist-centered Life . Loya . Craig . March 22, 2019 . Tracts for the Times . Society of Catholic Priests . 2020-02-02.

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