Benjamin Fischer (bishop)
{{short description|American Anglican bishop (born 1978)}}
{{About|the American bishop|other uses|Benjamin Fischer (disambiguation){{!}}Benjamin Fischer}}
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Ben Fischer
| title = Suffragan Bishop of the Rocky Mountains
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| diocese = Rocky Mountains
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| term = 2024–present
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| ordination = 2011 (priesthood)
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| consecration = February 5, 2024
| consecrated_by = Foley Beach
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Benjamin Louis Fischer (born 1978) is an American Anglican bishop and academic. He was consecrated in 2024 as the first bishop suffragan of the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains in the Anglican Church in North America.
Academic career
Fischer received his B.A. and M.A. in church history from Emory University,{{cite web |title=Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog |url=https://gpscatalog.nnu.edu/sites/default/files/2020-21-gps.pdf |publisher=Northwest Nazarene University |access-date=24 January 2024 |page=205 |date=2020}} and obtained his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Notre Dame in 2008. His dissertation, under the direction of Joseph Buttigieg, was on "religion and the cultural politics of British imperialist ambition in China."{{cite web |last1=Fischer |first1=Benjamin |title=Opium Pushing and Bible Smuggling: Religion and the Cultural Politics of British Imperialist Ambition in China |url=https://curate.nd.edu/downloads/6h440r9853q |publisher=University of Notre Dame |access-date=24 January 2024 |format=Dissertation |archive-date=24 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924215218/https://curate.nd.edu/downloads/6h440r9853q |url-status=bot: unknown }} Following his Ph.D. completion, Fischer became assistant professor of English at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, where he taught early British literature,
Shakespeare, modern drama, linguistics and composition.{{cite news |title=NEW FACULTY AT NNU |url=https://nnu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fall_08.pdf |access-date=24 January 2024 |work=The Messenger |issue=Fall 2008 |page=8}} He later received tenure at NNU and an appointment as associate professor.
Ordained ministry
After moving to Nampa, Fischer and his wife, Brooke, joined an Anglican Mission in the Americas church plant in Eagle, Idaho. They led student ministry outreach at this church for several years. After Fischer was ordained to the priesthood in AMiA in 2011, he led a church planting effort in Nampa that came to fruition in 2014 as Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church. Initially resident in PEARUSA, Christ the Redeemer became a founding member of the Diocese of the Rocky Mountains.{{cite web |title=Our Story |url=https://www.christtheredeemernampa.com/home-1 |publisher=Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church |access-date=24 January 2024}}
In 2023, Fischer was elected as the diocese's first bishop suffragan in a part-time role. He was consecrated in February 2024 at Wellspring Church in Englewood, Colorado, by Archbishop Foley Beach and continued to serve as rector of Christ the Redeemer.{{cite news |title=ACNA College of Bishops Consents to Election of three suffragan bishops |url=https://anglican.ink/2024/01/11/acna-college-of-bishops-consents-to-election-of-three-suffragan-bishops/ |access-date=24 January 2024 |work=Anglican Ink |date=January 11, 2024}}
Personal life
Fischer married Brooke Underwood in 2003.{{cite web |title=GRADUATE STUDENT CORNER |url=https://sociology.nd.edu/assets/167123/newsletter_2003.pdf |website=NOTRE DAME SOCIOLOGY NEWSLETTER |access-date=24 January 2024 |date=Winter 2003}} They have three children.
Bibliography
=Books=
- {{cite book |last1=Wycliffe |first1=John |author1-link=John Wycliffe |editor1-last=Fischer |editor1-first=Benjamin |title=Being A Pastor: Pastoral Treatises of John Wycliffe |date=2021 |publisher=Davenant Institute |location=Landrum, South Carolina |isbn=978-1949716054}}
- {{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=Benjamin |last2=Kanana |first2=Cedric |title=Joy Renewed: A Biblical Prescription for Rediscovering Joy in Late Modernity |date=2021 |publisher=Wipf and Stock |location=Eugene, Oregon |isbn=9781666715576}}
- {{cite book |last1=Kanana |first1=Cedric |last2=Fischer |first2=Benjamin |title=I Once Was Dead: How God Rescued Me from Islam, Drugs, Witchcraft, and even Death |date=2022 |publisher=Oasis International |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1594528538}}
=Articles=
- {{cite journal |last1=Fischer |first1=Benjamin |last2=Derbesy |first2=Philip C. |title=Literary Catholicity An Alternate Reading of Influence in the Work of C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton |journal=Religion and the Arts |date=2015 |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=389–410 |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/rart/19/4/article-p389_4.xml |access-date=24 January 2024}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Fischer |first1=Benjamin |title=Civilized Depravity: Evangelical Representations of Early-Nineteenth-Century China and the Redefinition of 'True Civilization' |journal=Victorian Literature and Culture |date=2015 |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=409–429 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/abs/civilized-depravity-evangelical-representations-of-earlynineteenthcentury-china-and-the-redefinition-of-true-civilization/12256B69B4292FAC4C589DE2445A5B32 |access-date=24 January 2024}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Fischer |first1=Benjamin L. |title=A Novel Resistance: Mission Narrative as the Anti-Novel in the Evangelical Assault on British Culture |journal=Studies in Church History |date=2016 |volume=59 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-church-history/article/abs/novel-resistance-mission-narrative-as-the-antinovel-in-the-evangelical-assault-on-british-culture/69ED7B8980F5F553271B8B4D45CDF4C7 |access-date=24 January 2024}}
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