Tory Baucum

Tory K. Baucum (born 1960) is an American Anglican priest. He is married to Elizabeth Tyndall Baucum and they have three daughters.

Rev. Baucum attended the Trinity School for Ministry, in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, where he received his MA in 1986 and his Master of Divinity in 1988. He also received his doctorate there in 2005. He was rector of All Saints Church, in Kansas City, Missouri, and also served on the clergy staffs of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Kansas City and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was Associate Professor of Preaching and Church Renewal at Asbury Theological Seminary, in Wilmore, Kentucky. He also received a PhD in intercultural theology.

During the Anglican realignment conflicts in the United States that led to the birth of the Common Cause Partnership, he was unanimously chosen to be the new rector of Truro Church in Fairfax, Virginia, a parish of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, on April 2007. He joined the Anglican Church in North America, upon its creation in June 2009, as part of the Anglican District of Virginia, a group of parishes which had left the Episcopal Church in 2006, later becoming the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic in 2011. Despite their theological differences, especially concerning human sexuality, he was able to establish a friendship with Bishop Shannon Johnston, of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

He was appointed in January 2014 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, after being unanimously approved in December 2013 by their chapter. Archbishop Justin stated upon his appointment that he was expecting that it would help promote "reconciliation and unity" in the Anglican Communion.^[1][2]

Rev. Baucum announced in April 2017 the launching of the Truro Institute: a School of Peace and Reconciliation, a ministry that will included representation by Truro Anglican, the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, the Dean of Coventry Cathedral and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.^[3] This decision was criticized by both Bishop John Guernsey and Archbishop Foley Beach, of the Anglican Church in North America, because in their views it doesn't show an attempt to what they believe would be true reconciliation and for having been made without their approval.^[4][5]

Rev. Baucum has written two books: Constructing Faith Cultures (2005) and Evangelical Hospitality (2008).

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External links

• "Archbishop appoints US priest as Canterbury preacher", Archbishop of Canterbury website