John Miller (bishop)

American Anglican bishop (born 1949)

The Right Reverend

John E. Miller III

Retired Assisting Bishop, Gulf Atlantic Diocese

John E. Miller III speaks at an Anglicans for Life service preceding the 2020 March for Life.

Church| Anglican Church in North America
Diocese| Gulf Atlantic
Orders
Ordination| 1993 (diaconate)
1994 (priesthood)
Consecration| January 26, 2008
by Emmanuel Kolini
Personal details
Born| 1949 (age 74-75)

Easton, Pennsylvania

Previous post(s)| Missionary Bishop, Anglican Mission in America
Interim Bishop, Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes
Acting Bishop, Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest

John Engle Miller III (born 1949) is an American marine biologist and retired bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. He is a former Episcopal priest who played an active role in the Anglican realignment in the United States. Consecrated in 2008 to serve as a bishop in the Anglican Mission in the Americas, Miller later served as assisting bishop in the Gulf Atlantic Diocese and provided interim support during episcopal vacancies and leaves of absence in the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes and the Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest.

## Early life, education, and marine biology career[edit]

Miller is a native of Easton, Pennsylvania.[1] He received his B.A. in zoology from the University of South Florida, where he also did graduate studies in marine biology.[2] Miller worked as a marine biologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce, Florida, for eighteen years. His research was conducted from Bermuda to Antarctica and throughout the Caribbean Sea.[1] He is married to Joyce and they have three adult children.[2]

In 1990, Miller enrolled in Trinity School for Ministry. While there, he and his wife Joyce were spiritually influenced by the discipleship ministry of Thad and Erilynne Barnum in Aliquippa. Miller graduated in 1993 with an M.Div. and was ordained in the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida.[2]

## Ordained ministry[edit]

Miller served as assistant rector and school chaplain at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Melbourne, Florida, in 1994, and as priest in charge from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2004, he was rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Melbourne.[2] In 2004, he left the Episcopal Church and joined the Anglican Mission in the Americas, planting Prince of Peace Anglican Church in Melbourne.[3] By 2008, Prince of Peace Anglican had grown to 400 members.[2]

In 2007, the Rwandan bishops elected Miller to serve as a missionary bishop in the AMIA. He was consecrated in January 2008 by Emmanuel Kolini alongside Terrell Glenn and Philip Jones.[4] Miller oversaw a network of more than 30 AMIA congregations in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama[5] while remaining rector of Prince of Peace, as was customary for AMIA bishops.[4]

In 2010, AMIA—which had been a founding member of the ACNA the year before—left full membership, changing its status in ACNA to "ministry partner."[6] By the next year, the relationship between AMIA chairman Murphy and the Anglican Church of Rwanda's house of bishops, led by Kolini's successor Onesphore Rwaje, had broken down over questions of financial transparency and collegiality.[7] Except for Glenn and Barnum, the AMIA bishops removed AMIA from Rwandan jurisdiction and restructured it as a "missionary society."[8] In the fallout from AMIA's break with ACNA and Rwanda, some AMIA bishops—including Miller—transitioned directly into the ACNA.[8]

Miller accepted a call in 2012 as rector of Christ Church in Vero Beach, a four-year-old congregation in the recently formed Gulf Atlantic Diocese, where Miller was appointed assisting bishop.[1][5] Miller was restored to membership in the ACNA College of Bishops in 2013.[9] In 2017, Miller presided over the dedication of a new 27,000-square-foot facility for Christ Church,[10] and in 2019, he retired as rector of Christ Church.[1]

## Later life[edit]

In retirement, Miller took on interim roles across the ACNA. From 2019 to 2020, he was interim bishop of the Diocese of the Great Lakes during the episcopal vacancy between Ronald Jackson and Mark Engel.[11] From 2021 to 2022, after allegations of mishandling of abuse reports, Miller was acting bishop in the Diocese of the Upper Midwest, appointed by ACNA Primate Foley Beach and with delegated authority from the UMD's Bishop's Council during Stewart Ruch's leave of absence.[12]

Miller also serves as a "soul care" counselor for clergy in partnership with Thad Barnum.[5]

## Bibliography[edit]

* Miller, J. E.; Pawson, D. L. (1979). "A new subspecies of Holothuria lentiginosa Marenzeller from the western Atlantic Ocean (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 91: 912–922.
* Pawson, D. L.; Miller, J. E. (1981). "Western Atlantic sea cucumbers of the genus Thyone, with descriptions of two new species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 94(2): 391–403.
* Pawson, D. L.; Miller, J. E. (1983). "Systematics and ecology of the sea urchin genus Centrostephanus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 40: 1–67.
* Hendler, G.; Miller, J. E. (1984). "Ophioderma devaneyi and Ophioderma ensiferum, new brittle star species from the western Atlantic". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 97: 442–461.
* Miller, J. E.; Pawson, D. L. (1984). "Holothurians (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)". Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises. 7(1): 1–79.
* Turner, R. L.; Miller, J. E. (1986). "Psolus pawsoni (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), a new bathyal sea cucumber from the Florida East Coast". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 99(3): 478–485.
* Miller, J. E.; Pawson, D. L. (1990). "Swimming sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea); a survey, with analysis of swimming behavior in four bathyal species". Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. 35: 1–18.
* Hendler, G.; Miller, J. E.; Pawson, D. L.; Kier, P. M. (1995). Sea Stars, Sea Urchins, and Allies: Echinoderms of Florida and the Caribbean. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d "The Rt. Rev. John Miller Will Step Down July 12, as Rector of Christ Church Anglican Vero Beach". Hometown News. June 27, 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
2. ^ a b c d e "Our Structure and Leadership". Anglican Mission in the Americas. 2008. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 27 November 2022.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
3. ^ "CENTRAL FLORIDA: St. John's Departure from the Episcopal Church". Virtue Online. 2004. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
4. ^ a b "The Anglican Mission Celebrates Appointment of New Missionary Bishops". Anglican Mission in the Americas. 2007. Archived from the original on 10 December 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2022.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
5. ^ a b c "Meet the Team". Gulf Atlantic Diocese. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
6. ^ Lundy, Robert H. "Anglican Mission in the Americas: The Aftermath". Encompass. No. First Quarter 2012. American Anglican Council. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2022.`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
7. ^ Terrell L. Glenn (2015). "A Unity Greater Than Doctrine". In Arten, Isaac; Glass, William (eds.). A House Divided? Ways Forward for North American Anglicans. Wipf and Stock. p. 64.
8. ^ a b Virtue, David (October 9, 2012). "An Unholy Mess: Clash of Wills, Power Struggles, & Theological Direction Mark AMIA-ACNA Struggle". Virtue Online. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
9. ^ "A COMMUNIQUE FROM THE COLLEGE OF BISHOPS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA". Anglican Church in North America. June 22, 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
10. ^ Trudell, Tracy (May 22, 2017). "Christ Church complex nears completion". TCPalm. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
11. ^ "Interim bishop of the Diocese of the Great Lakes steps down". Anglican Ink. March 17, 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
12. ^ "Miller and Atkinson appointed acting bishops of the Upper Midwest". Anglican Ink. July 28, 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.

Anglican Communion titles

Preceded by

Ronald Jackson

|  Bishop of the Great Lakes
interim
2019-2020  | Succeeded by

Grant LeMarquand
interim
Mark Engel
diocesan

Preceded by

Stewart Ruch

|  Bishop of the Upper Midwest
acting
2021-2022  | Succeeded by

Stewart Ruch