The Most Rev. Father Bob Lemmon has served as the Father General of the Missionary Society of St. John the Evangelist since 2015. Fr. Bob earned his B. A. at Mt. Vernon Nazarene University, 1991, and his M. Div. at Asbury Theological Seminary, 1995. He has served as pastor of Christ the King Anglican Church since its founding in 2000. He and his wife, Mary, are blessed to have lived in Casey County KY since 1997, where they home-school their children. Fr. Bob and his family run a small custom woodworking business to help support the family. He blogs from his personal experience and musings at Bread and Sawdust.
The Right Rev. Alberto Morales, OSB, DD is the Bishop Protector of the Missionary Society of Saint John the Evangelist and serves as the ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Quincy (ACNA). Born on the south side of Puerto Rico, in the town of Yabucoa, Bp. Morales loved the church from a young age. As a child, he would pretend he was a priest for his cousins and family. Later he would frequent all of the churches in town, learning from and drawing from many expressions of our catholic Christian faith. His call to ministry from that young age took Bp. Morales to the Caribbean and Spain for seminary. After seminary, Bp. Morales returned to Puerto Rico and founded St. Benedict’s Abbey as an ecumenical abbey, reflecting his deep understanding that all churches that profess Jesus as Lord are all part of the body of Christ. In 1996 St. Benedict’s Abbey moved to Bartonville, Illinois at the invitation of Bishop Keith Ackerman. Bp. Ackerman and Bp. Morales met through the Anglican Communion, and Bp. Ackerman welcomed the Benedictine monastic experience into the diocese. After the Diocese of Quincy joined the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) in 2009, the diocese voted Alberto their next bishop, and he was enthroned in 2010.
The Missionary Society of Saint John the Evangelist (MSJ) is canonically resident within the Missionary Diocese of All Saints, part of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). The Province is connected to GAFCON, a global fellowship of orthodox Anglicans representing the majority of the Anglican Communion.