37 Facts About Foley Beach

Foley Thomas Beach was born on October 31,1958 and is an American Anglican bishop.

Foley Beach was the second primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, a church associated with the Anglican realignment movement, and is the first diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South.

Foley Beach was born on October 31,1958, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Foley Beach was ordained a deacon and a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta in 1992.

Foley Beach was nominated deacon-in-charge, afterwards rector, of St Alban's Episcopal Church, in Monroe, Georgia, where he served from 1992 to 2004.

Foley Beach left the Episcopal Church following the consecration of Gene Robinson as the first openly non-celibate gay bishop of the Anglican Communion.

Foley Beach was later deposed as a priest by the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta in July 2004, although he had been received and placed in good standing as a priest in the Diocese of Bolivia in the Anglican Communion.

Foley Beach then planted Holy Cross Anglican Church in Loganville, Georgia, which held its first service on February 8,2004 with over 350 in attendance.

Foley Beach was elected as the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South, a newly formed diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, as well as rector and pastor of Holy Cross Anglican Church in Loganville, Georgia, since its founding, from February 2004 to December 2013.

Foley Beach was elected the second archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America after a three-day conclave held at the crypt of the Roman Catholic Basilica of St Vincent Archabbey, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Foley Beach took office at the conclusion of the provincial assembly of the Anglican Church in North America on June 25,2014.

Foley Beach's investiture took place at the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 9,2014, with an attendance of 2,000 people and seven Anglican archbishops who afterwards recognized him as a fellow primate and archbishop of the Anglican Communion.

Foley Beach was able to finalize the efforts to have the Church of England recognize the Orders of the Anglican Church of America as valid in 2017.

Foley Beach subscribes to the right of each diocese to their own decision on the ordination of women.

Foley Beach was keen in following Robert Duncan's main prerogatives, including social engagement, church planting, ecumenism and full integration into the Anglican Communion, with the support of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and the Global South.

Foley Beach initiated the Matthew 25 Initiative Matthew 25 Initiative encouraging congregations to minister to the least, the last, and the lost in their local communities.

Foley Beach followed this with a visit to the Church of the Province of Myanmar, where he was welcomed by Archbishop Stephen Than Myint Oo, and to the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, meeting Archbishop Glenn Davies, who invited him to preach at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney.

In December 2015 at the invitation of Archbishop Onesipore Rwaje, Foley Beach preached at the Anglican Church of Rwanda's Bishops and Clergy Conference.

In July 2016 Foley Beach participated in the Enthronement of Jackson Ole Sapit as the new Archbishop and Primate of Kenya at All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi.

In November 2016 Foley Beach visited the Province of South East Asia, preaching the Diocese of Singapore and ministering in Kathmandu, Nepal.

In May 2018 Foley Beach represented the Gafcon Primates Council by installing Miguel Uchoa as the first Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Brazil.

In January 2018, Foley Beach was invited to speak to the bishops of South Sudan at the election of their new Archbishop and Primate, Justin Badi Arama.

Foley Beach served as Chairman until 2023 when Archbishop Laurent Mbanda, Archbishop and Primate of Rwanda was elected.

Foley Beach preached at several Anglican churches to express his full support for the Anglican realignment in Great Britain and Ireland.

In January 2019 Foley Beach was invited to participate in the consecration of the a new bishop for Kustia, Bangladesh, Heman Halderin, in Rajshahi.

Foley Beach led a delegation in August 2015 for Ecumenical discussions with Patriarch Kirill and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Foley Beach signed Full Communion Concordances with the Free Church of England in 2015, the Episcopal Missionary Church in 2020, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia in 2023, and the Filipino Independent Catholic Church in 2024.

In 2023 Foley Beach led a delegation to the Vatican with discussions with the Roman Catholic Church regarding resurrecting the Malta Statement from the 1960s regarding steps for Eucharistic Fellowship.

Foley Beach visited Pakistan in November 2019, at the invitation of the Kul Masalak Ulama Board Leadership, where he met Moderator Humphrey Peters and Bishop Azad Marshall, of the Church of Pakistan.

Foley Beach was present in an interfaith gathering with Muslim scholars in Lahore on 19 November 2019.

In February 2020 Foley Beach was invited by Ugandan Archbishop and Primate Stephen Kaziimba to peach at his enthronement and lead his personal pre-enthronement spiritual retreat in Kampala.

In March 2020 Foley Beach was invited by Archbishop and Primate Ezekiel Kondo to Khartoum to a preaching mission and ministry to the Sudanese bishops.

In September 2021 at the invitation of Archbishop and Primate Henry Ndukuba of Nigeria, Foley Beach preached and ministered at the Standing Committee of the Church of Nigeria in Lagos, Nigeria.

In June 2023 Foley Beach was invited to preach to the nation at the annual Uganda Martyr's Day Remembrance in Kampala.

In October 2023 Foley Beach ministered in North India in the Anglican Diocese of Bengal at the invitation of Bishop Probal Dutta.

Foley Beach was succeeded as archbishop by Steve Wood in June 2024.

Foley Beach is married to Allison and they have two adult children.