Brian Morse Wallace (born 1962) is an American

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bishop. Consecrated in 2023, he serves as the first bishop suffragan in the

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in the

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Biography

Wallace graduated from

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and married his wife, Lisa, in 1985. They have three sons and, as of 2024, five grandchildren. After being involved with

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at Hampden-Sydney, Wallace spent 19 years on staff with InterVarsity in North Carolina and Texas, serving as regional director for Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. After leaving InterVarsity, Wallace spent 11 years in pastoral ministry in evangelical churches in

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. He obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in missiology from

Fuller Theological Seminary Fuller Theological Seminary is an Evangelical seminary in Pasadena, California, with regional campuses in the western United States. It is egalitarian in nature. Fuller has a student body of approximately 2,300 students from 90 countries and ...

. In 2015, he became executive director of the Fuller Center for Spiritual Formation at Fuller Seminary, where he developed Fuller Formation Groups, a program that matched Fuller resources with cohorts of local church members. In 2017, Wallace was received into the Anglican Church in North America, and in 2023, Wallace was elected to serve as bishop suffragan in the ACNA's Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others. Archbishop Foley Beach consecrated him to the episcopate on September 9, 2023, at Trinity Anglican Church in Atlanta.

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Interview on C4SO website
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