Died: Jack Iker, Anglican Who Drew the Line at Women’s Ordination

Posted on Oct 11, 2024 in Anglican Division, Anglicans, church, Daniel Silliman, Death, Episcopalians, Obituary, Texas, Women in Leadership, Women's Ordination

Jack Iker, a Texas bishop who took 48 congregations and 15,000 parishioners out of the Episcopal Church USA and helped start the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), died on October 5. He was 75. Iker was a conservative Anglo-Catholic who made common cause with evangelicals—whom he called “strange bedfellows”—in order to fight against liberal Read more…

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