George C. Schneller Explained

Type:Bishop
George C. Schneller
2nd Presiding Bishop
Church:Orthodox Anglican Communion
See:Anglican Orthodox Church
Term:1991 to 1994
Successor:Robert J. Godfrey
Consecration:27 October 1991
Consecrated By:Hesbon O. Njera, Laione Q. Vuki
Death Date:8 June 2000

George C. Schneller was the second presiding bishop of the Orthodox Anglican Church and Metropolitan of the Orthodox Anglican Communion. He was born on February 22, 1921, in St. Louis, Missouri.

He was ordained to the priesthood on December 8, 1973, by James Parker Dees, and served as the rector of Holy Cross Anglican Church in St. Louis, Missouri for over two decades. He was consecrated to the episcopate on October 27, 1991, by Hesbon O. Njera, Presiding Bishop of Kenya and Laione Q. Vuki, a bishop in Polynesia, both were bishops of the Orthodox Anglican Communion. Schneller served his alma mater (1973) as the second president of Cranmer Seminary during the same period. Following the death of his wife and having health difficulties of his own, on January 9, 1993, he resigned his position as presiding bishop.

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