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Mark MacDonald

The Right Rev. Mark MacDonald assumed office as the Anglican Church of Canada’s first National Indigenous Anglican Bishop after serving about 10 years as bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Diocese of Alaska where he was consecrated bishop on Sept. 13, 1997. His formal education includes a B.A. in religious studies and psychology at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., an M. Div. from Wycliffe, and a D. Min. from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. Married on Nov. 11, 1989, Bishop Mark MacDonald and his wife, Virginia Sha Lynn, have three children: daughters Rose May Li (born November 15, 1991), Brenna Li (born October 23, 1993), and one son, Adrian Blake (born May 21, 2000).
[Image: Michael Hudson for General Synod Communications]