Bishops
The Right Rev’d Martyn Minns is missionary bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA). Prior to serving as CANA’s diocesan, Bishop Minns was rector of the historic Truro Church in Fairfax, Virginia for 15 years. With over 30 years of pastoral experience his ministry has emphasized an evangelical call to worldwide mission, outreach to the poor, and fidelity to the historic Christian faith as revealed in Holy Scripture and the creeds of the church. In 2006, Bishop Minns was consecrated by the Most Reverend Peter J. Akinola, Primate of the Church of Nigeria. In that same year Bishop Minns was installed as CANA’s missionary bishop. Bishop Minns earned has a Master of Divinity degree from the Virginia Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Birmingham, England. He is married to Angela, and they have five grown children.
The Right Rev’d Dr. Felix Orji, OSB
Bishop Felix Orji was born to Christian parents in Ngwama in Abia State, Nigeria. As a teenager he received Jesus as his Lord and Savior, and ever since, has endeavored to follow Christ.
Early on, he wanted to be a priest but went to college to be a professor. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in English Language and Education from Obafemi Awolowo University, and completed a Master's degree in Educational Administration at the University of Lagos in Nigeria. As a graduate student at the University of Lagos, Dr. Orji was elected President of the Postgraduate Christian Fellowship, and also served as Chairman of all the Christian Unions at the University.
After a stint teaching, he decided to pursue a clerical life. He received a Diploma in Christian Studies from Regent College, Vancouver, BC in 1991, and earned a Master of Divinity from Vancouver School of Theology in 1994. He was ordained in 1996, and in 2004 he earned a Doctorate in Leadership from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a member of the Order of St. Benedict.
While in Vancouver, he was the Associate Rector at the largest evangelical Anglican Church in Canada, St. John's Shaughnessy, and has served on a number of high-profile committees in the Anglican Church of Canada and in the United States.
Bishop Orji moved to El Paso, Texas in 2005, serving as the Associate Rector of St. Francis on the Hill Episcopal Church, and was later appointed Rector. The majority of that congregation left the Episcopal Church in 2008, and founded St. Francis Anglican Church in El Paso, where he continues to serve as Rector.
Bishop Orji was consecrated Bishop at Archbishop Vining Memorial Cathedral Church in Ikeja, Lagos on September 25th, 2011, by the Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, His Grace Archbishop Nicholas Okoh. In his role as Bishop he will assist Bishop Martyn Minns in exercising episcopal care of Anglican parishes in the western U.S. under the auspices of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) and the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA).
He is a member of the FBI Citizens Academy Association and serves as Executive Director of Boy Scout Troop 82 in El Paso. Bishop Orji and his wife, Lilian, have four children: Cara, John, Jadon, and Justin.
The Right Rev’d Dr. Alpha Mohamed was the founder of the Anglican Evangelistic Association in Dodoma, Tanzania and the former diocesan of the Rift Valley in East Africa. At the age of 19 Bishop Mohamed committed his life to Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. He studied at Alliance Secondary School, Dodoma, Tanzania and later at theological colleges in Tanzania, Israel, Australia and the U.S.A. He was ordained in 1967, consecrated Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Central Tanganyika in 1976. In 1981 he became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Mount Kilimanjaro and in 1992 became the first Bishop of the Diocese of the Rift Valley. Bishop Mohamed was an evangelist with a heart for missions and a history of planting churches, schools, and an orphanage for children with AIDS. Bishop Alpha was received into the arms of our Lord on March 14, 2011. He is survived by his wife Marian Violet and his six grown children.
