Mark Van Koevering

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Mark Van Koevering
Bishop of Niassa
Church Anglican
Diocese Niassa
In office 2003 – 2015
Predecessor Paulino Manhique
Successor vacant
Orders
Consecration July 2003[1]

Mark Van Koevering is an American Anglican bishop.

Van Koevering was consecrated as Bishop of Niassa, Mozambique, part of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, in 2003, where he served until November 2015.

Van Koevering was raised in the Christian Reformed Church. He studied agriculture and plant breeding at university, working in Thailand, China and then as an agriculturist with DanChurchAid in Niassa, Mozambique. There he met and married Helen, who was working with the Christian Council of Mozambique, reuniting war orphans with their families. He was the diocesan director of development when he felt called to the ministry. He trained Trinity College, Bristol and was ordained in Wales, working under Rowan Williams, the then archbishop in Newport when the people of Niassa elected him as their bishop. His wife Helen was ordained shortly before leaving Wales in 2003.

Until April 2011 the Van Koeverings' ministry in Niassa was supported through USPG. In April 2011 The Van Koevering Trust Fund was set up to secure funds for the furthering of the Van Koeverings' ministry in Niassa.

In November 2015, he moved back to the United States, to become the assistant bishop at the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia.[2]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Makgoba 2013.
  2. ↑ Niassa-Charleston, Living Church

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Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by
Paulino Manhique		 Bishop of Niassa
2003 - 2015		 Succeeded by
Vicente Msosa
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