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| The Anglican Church of Virginia Background Information on +Larry W. Johnson |
The Bishop's Apostolic Succession
From Peter to Bishop Johnson, this is a wonderful 25-page historical document tracing the laying on of
hands from Christ to todays Anglo-Catholic Leaders.
From Peter to Bishop Johnson, this is a wonderful 25-page historical document tracing the laying on of
hands from Christ to todays Anglo-Catholic Leaders.
| The Anglican Church of Virginia, 582 Simons Way, Front Royal, Va 22630 1.540.635.5521 cgci@shentel.net |
Larry Wilson Johnson was consecrated in February 2001
by visiting Anglican Bishops to Virginia from Haiti and the United
States as Bishop of Virginia and the Episcopal Visitor to Haiti.
Bishop Johnson has served the Anglican Church since 1981,
reading for orders under The Rev. Canon Ramsay Robertson-Kendall,
Oxon. Canterbury and the Commission on Holy Orders of the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States, Anglican
Catholic Church. He was made a priest in 1984 by the Rt. Rev. Wm. deJ. Rutherfoord. He served as the
rector at Christ Anglican Church, Warrenton, Virginia until 1990. He founded St. Paul's Anglican Mission to
the Poor and Imprisoned as early 1983 and for more than twenty years he has been a parish priest, pastoral
counselor, teacher and school principal. He had a career spanning more than twenty years as an association
chief executive in Washington, D.C. Johnson is a founder of the Anglican Church International Communion
which is made up of seventeen provinces around the world. He serves as the ACIC's Secretary General. He
is the Archbishop for the International provinces and jurisdictions of the ACIC and the Virginia Communion.
Born in Raleigh and raised in the farm community of Coats, he began his professional career as a
teacher in North Carolina at Cary High School. At age 25, he was promoted to the Department of Public
Instruction and served as a State Supervisor of Industrial and Technical Eduction. He was assigned two
years later to Washington, D.C., to found the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. He served as the
organization's chief executive officer for twenty-three years. He served from 1972 until 1984 as the United
States Representative to the International Council on Skilled Competition headquarter in Madrid, Spain. In this
capacity he traveled and advised most of the industrialized nations on training and education. During his years
as an educator he was voted the nation's outstanding Career and Technical Educator. During his work with
the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America the organization grew to an annual enrollment of nearly 300,000
students training in 5,000 school programs throughout the United States and territories. He was received at
the White House by President Ronald Reagan three times relative to his work in training. He was elected three
times to serve as Chairperson of the National Coordinating Council of Student Organizations founded in the
White House. His duties as chairperson were to coordinate the programs of two million students, teachers and
administrators nationwide.
He first studied at Campbell University and then at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned his B.A. He earned
his Master's Degree at North Carolina State University at Raleigh.
His Doctorate of Ministry was earned at Saint George's School of
Theology, San Antonio, Texas. St. George's is located at St. Chad's
Church in San Antonio. He served six years in the USMCR.
He is a Certified Association Executive (inactive) and a Fellow in
the American Psychotherapy Association. He is married to Sondra B.
Johnson, an author. They have seven children and live at Front Royal,
Virginia in the Shenendoah Valley.
A man of missionary zeal, he leads the work to build The Anglican
Church of Virginia, train men for the priesthood and serve the spiritual
needs of God's people. A traditional Anglican with the heart of an
evangelical Larry Johnson teaches, "It is the souls of men, women and
children we must bring to Jesus Christ, because the Kingdom of God is
at hand."
*Picture to right is of the Bishop instructing.
