Clergy at Saint Barnabas Anglican Church
Bishop Lipka
The Most Reverend Richard Lipka is the Bishop Ordinary for the Diocese of Delmarva of the Communion of Christ the Redeemer. Additional information on Bishop Rich and the Diocese of Delmarva is available on the diocesan web page .
Fr. Hutchison
The Reverend Dr. James Hutchison is the vicar at St. Barnabas. He has theological degrees from Bethany Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He has a doctorate in community and agency counseling from The College of William and Mary. He was ordained to the Christian ministry in the Church of the Brethren on 12 June 1976 and to the priesthood in The Communion of Christ the Redeemer on 17 May 2008. He has been a parish pastor in Newport News and was on the staff of Tidewater Pastoral Counseling Center. He is a school psychologist with Bedford County Public Schools and has been in private practice in the Lynchburg area as a professional counselor. He is a licensed professional counselor and a licensed marriage and family therapist. His interests include liturgy, sacramental theology, healing ministries, spiritual development and spiritual direction, attachment and the psychology of religion, and moral theology.
Bishop Weeks
Bishop Philip E. P. Weeks is a retired Bishop-in-Residence at St. Barnabas. He was ordained in the Virginia Methodist Conference, later in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia. After servicing churches in Virginia, West Virginia, and Florida, he started Barnabas Ministries, Inc. in 1980 as a missionary support ministry to the Body of Christ. BMI took him to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Burma, Singapore, Thailand, India, Hong Kong, and the Philippine Islands. For five years he smuggled Bibles into China with Brother Andrew and Revival Christian Center in Hong Kong. In 1986 he concentrated the work of Barnabas Ministries in the Philippine Islands.
In 1998 the teaching ministry of Barnabas was transferred to Africa where on August August 24, 2002 he was consecrated a Bishop in Uganda for the Charismatic Episcopal Church's International Development Agency in the Apostolic Succession of the Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasiliera, (Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil), which is in the Rebiban Apostolic line from St. Peter, first Bishop of Rome. He served as supervising Bishop (until he raised up native clergy to take his place) of Rwanda, later Tanzania, and finally Burundi before retirement September 1, 2005, and moved from Florida to Lynchburg.