Darel Chase (bishop)

Darel Chase is an African-American religious leader, associated with several Christian denominations in the Anglican realignment and Convergence Movement.
Biography
Darel Chase was born in New Jersey, and grew up in an Anglican household. By his early adulthood, he was a licensed and ordained Baptist preacher, affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. He then served in several Christian denominations, and was regularized as deacon and priest in the United Evangelical Episcopal Church.
In 2001, Chase was affirmed as an apostle through the National Pentecostal Holiness Assemblies; and between 2004 and 2005, he was consecrated into the episcopacy and enthroned as archbishop-patriarch.
After his episcopal consecration and patriarchal enthronement, Chase became notable for consecrating a claimant to the Roman papacy.
On April 27, 2019, Chase consecrated Jack Lumanog of the Anglican Church in North America into the episcopacy while under ecclesiastical suspension. Following Lumanog's episcopal consecration, he was inhibited from the Anglican Church in North America and his episcopacy was unrecognized by the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.
Associated denominations
African Episcopal Church
The African Episcopal Church, originally named the Apostolic Anglican Church of America and then the Abyssinian Apostolic Church,
As of December 2024, the African Episcopal Church consisted of 5 international provinces, primarily within the African diaspora. It's US province claims 5 dioceses, 5 bishops, 43 parishes, 47 clergy, and 2 schools. The majority of its claimed dioceses and parishes are located within the Northeastern and Midwestern United States. Its Ugandan province, the Reformed Anglican Church (Province of Uganda), joined in 2023 after the expulsion of a Church of Uganda priest in 2017.
Apostolic Communion of Anglican Churches
The Apostolic Communion of Anglican Churches is another Christian denomination in the Convergence Movement, founded in 2005 by Chase. As of December 2024, the Apostolic Communion of Anglican Churches consisted of 5 member provinces: the Gospel Anglican Church Worldwide, the Anglican Church of the Caribbean and New Granada, the Episcopal Anglican Church of South India, the United Evangelical Episcopal Church, and the African Episcopal Church.<ref name=":4" />

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