Mark Van Koevering
{{short description|American prelate of the Episcopal Church}}
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| spouse = Helen Van Koevering
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| previous_post = Bishop of Niassa (2003-2015)
Assistant Bishop of West Virginia (2015-2018)
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Mark Van Koevering is an American prelate of the Episcopal Church, who is the eighth and current Bishop of Lexington.
Biography
Van Koevering was consecrated as Bishop of Niassa, Mozambique, part of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, in 2003, where he served until November 2015.
Van Koevering was raised in the Christian Reformed Church. He studied agriculture and plant breeding at university, working in Thailand, China and then as an agriculturist with DanChurchAid in Niassa, Mozambique. There he met and married Helen, who was working with the Christian Council of Mozambique, reuniting war orphans with their families. He was the diocesan director of development when he felt called to the ministry. He trained Trinity College, Bristol and was ordained in Wales, working under Rowan Williams, the then archbishop{{clarify|reason was Williams abp of Wales or abp of canterbury at that time|date=November 2017}} in Newport when the people of Niassa elected him as their bishop. His wife Helen was ordained shortly before leaving Wales in 2003.
Until April 2011 the Van Koeverings' ministry in Niassa was supported through USPG. In April 2011 The Van Koevering Trust Fund was set up to secure funds for the furthering of the Van Koeverings' ministry in Niassa.
In November 2015, he moved back to the United States, to become the assistant bishop at the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia.[http://www.livingchurch.org/niassa-charleston Niassa-Charleston, Living Church] In February 2018, he became the Bishop Provisional of the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington{{Cite web |url=https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article202023514.html |title=Episcopal Diocese of Lexington affirms bishop provisional | Lexington Herald Leader |access-date=2019-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209232009/https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article202023514.html |archive-date=2019-02-09 |url-status=dead }} On November 1, 2019, Bishop Van Koevering was elected the eighth diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington.
See also
Notes and references
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- {{Cite web| title = American Tells of Mozambique Raid
| author = John D. Battersby
| work = New York Times
| date = 25 July 1987
| access-date = 2014-09-12
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/25/world/american-tells-of-mozambique-raid.html
| ref={{sfnref|NYT|1987}} }}
- {{cite book|last=Morgan|first=Alison |title=The Word on the Wind: Renewing Confidence in the Gospel|url=https://archive.org/details/wordonwindrenewi0000morg|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/wordonwindrenewi0000morg/page/n112 111]|year=2011|publisher=Monarch Books|isbn=978-0-85721-015-9}}
- {{cite book|ref={{sfnref|Africa News Service|1987|pp=28-29}}|title=Africa News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSNWAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Africa News Service}}
- {{cite book|title=Europa World Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA2990|year=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8}}
- {{Cite web
| title = Mozambique bishop calls for peace
| author = Bellah Zulu
| work = Anglican News
| publisher =Anglican Communion Office
| date = 16 April 2013
| access-date = 2014-09-12
| url = http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2013/04/mozambique-bishop-calls-for-peace.aspx
| quote = }}
- {{Cite web| title = Ad Laos - To the People of God, August 2013 - and July 2013
| author = +Thabo Cape Town
| author-link= Thabo Makgoba
| work = archbishop.anglicanchurchsa.org
| date = 31 August 2013
| accessdate = 2014-09-12
| url = http://archbishop.anglicanchurchsa.org/2013/08/to-laos-to-people-of-god-august-2013.html
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| ref={{sfnref| Makgoba|2013}} }}
- {{Cite web| title = Episcopal Diocese of Lexington affirms Bishop Provisional
| author = +Karla Ward
| author-link= Karla Ward
| work = Lexington Herald-Leader
| date = 24 February 2018
| access-date = 2019-02-09
| url = https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article202023514.html
| language = English}}
- {{cite news| author =Vincent Dippenaar
| title =God in Distant Land
| url =http://www.anglican.co.za/Archives/2008-12-10.pdf
| newspaper =Anglican News
| location =Pietermaritzburg
| publisher =Anglican Diocese of Natal
| date =Dec 2008
| volume=18
| issue=6
| access-date =2014-09-12
| ref = {{sfnref|Dippenaar | 2008}} }}
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External links
- [http://opencharities.org/charities/1144375 Open Charities - Van Koevering Trust Fund]
- [http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/default.aspx?id=1139326 Church of Sweden's Report on its assessment visit to Chikweti, Niassa]
- [http://www.almalink.org/dioceses/dionia.htm Diocese of Niassa]
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