Craig Loya
{{Short description|American bishop (born 1977)}}
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Craig Loya
| title = Bishop of Minnesota
| image = CraigLoya.jpg
| caption = Loya in 2020
| church = The Episcopal Church
| diocese = Minnesota
| elected = January 25, 2020
| enthroned = June 6, 2020
| term = 2020–present
| predecessor = Brian Prior
| ordination = 2003
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| consecration = June 6, 2020
| consecrated_by = Brian Prior
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|04|05}}
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| nationality = American
| religion = Anglican
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| spouse = {{marriage|Melissa Tubbs|2004}}
| children = 2
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| alma_mater = Hastings College
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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.{{cite news |author= |title=Minnesota elects Craig Loya its 10th bishop |url= https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2020/01/27/minnesota-elects-craig-loya-its-10th-bishop/ |work=Episcopal News Service |access-date=2020-01-27}}
Life and career
Loya was raised in Nebraska where he graduated from North Platte High School and Hastings College.{{cite news |last=Wetzel |first=Diane |title=Neb. native called by God to return home |url=https://www.nptelegraph.com/news/neb-native-called-by-god-to-return-home/article_2f3c37cc-df93-5d7b-ad84-926ce6efade2.html |work=The North Platte Telegraph |location=North Platte, Nebraska |date=August 4, 2013 |quote=Loya, the son of Ernie Loya and JaNelle Hovie, both of North Platte, graduated from North Platte High School in 1995.}} He earned a Master of Divinity from Yale in conjunction with Berkeley Divinity School in 2002.{{cite web |url=https://divinity.yale.edu/alumni/class-notes/craig-loya-mdiv |title=Craig Loya, M.Div. |author= |website=Yale Divinity School |publisher=Yale University |access-date=2020-01-31}} He and Melissa Tubbs married in 2004.{{cite news |author= |title=Tubbs-Loya |url=https://www.nptelegraph.com/tubbs-loya/article_691bf47b-6c96-5c33-8d30-56affd86062a.html |work=The North Platte Telegraph |location=North Platte, Nebraska |date=January 3, 2005 |quote=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.}} 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.{{cite news |last=Petersen |first=Kirk |title=Craig Loya Elected X Bishop of Minnesota from 5-Person Slate |url=https://livingchurch.org/2020/01/27/craig-loya-elected-x-bishop-of-minnesota-from-5-person-slate/ |work=The Living Church |date=January 27, 2020}} 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.{{cite news |author= |title=Bishop Roundup: Pittsburgh, Alabama, Minnesota, Taiwan |url=https://livingchurch.org/2019/12/04/bishop-roundup-pittsburgh-alabama-minnesota-taiwan/ |work=The Living Church |date=December 4, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://mnbishopsearch.org/bishop-elect-craig-loya/ |title=Bishop-elect Craig Loya |author= |date= |website=Minnesota Bishop Search |publisher=The Episcopal Church in Minnesota |access-date=25 January 2020 |quote=The Very Rev. Craig Loya Elected 10th Bishop of ECMN |archive-date=25 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125225809/https://mnbishopsearch.org/bishop-elect-craig-loya/ |url-status=dead }} Brian Prior, the ninth bishop of Minnesota, served as chief consecrator.{{cite web |author=Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs |title=Presiding Bishop announces chief consecrators for the ordinations and consecrations of bishops in the Episcopal dioceses of Georgia, Minnesota, and Oklahoma |url=https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/pressreleases/presiding-bishop-announces-chief-consecrators-for-the-ordinations-and-consecrations-of-bishops-in-the-episcopal-dioceses-of-georgia-minnesota-and-oklahoma/ |work=Episcopal News Service |date=May 5, 2020}} Joseph Scott Barker and Bruce Edward Caldwell were the co-consecrators.{{cite web |url=https://ecmnbishop.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/ordination-and-consecration-bulletin.pdf |title=THE ORDINATION & CONSECRATION of the Very Reverend Craig Loya, Tenth Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota |author=Episcopal Church in Minnesota |date=June 6, 2020}}
Loya is a member of the Society of Catholic Priests, an Anglo-Catholic association of clergy in The Episcopal Church.{{cite web |url=https://www.thescp.org/scp-blog/2019/3/22/living-a-eucharist-centered-life |title=Living a Eucharist-centered Life |last=Loya |first=Craig |date=March 22, 2019 |website=Tracts for the Times |publisher=Society of Catholic Priests |access-date=2020-02-02}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.episcopalmn.org/ The Episcopal Church in Minnesota]
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Category:Religious leaders from Nebraska
Category:Yale Divinity School alumni
Category:Episcopal bishops of Minnesota