Marc Andrus

Marc Handley Andrus is the Eighth Bishop of California in The Episcopal Church. He was elected after three ballots in a special convention at San Franciscos Grace Cathedral on May 6, 2006, and was invested as Bishop of California on July 22, 2006. Prior to his election as Bishop of California, Andrus served as a suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.

Andrus was born in 1956 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Mary Frances and Francis Andrus and was raised in Kingston, Tennessee. He received his Bachelor of Science in Plant Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1979 and a masters degree in social sciences from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg in 1982. After receiving his masters degree, Andrus went to work as a regional planner for the AccomackNorthampton Planning District Commission on Virginias Delmarva Peninsula.

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