The Diocesan Bishop of Texas C. Andrew (Andy) Doyle arrived in Liberia on Monday, March 3, 2025, as guest of the Episcopal Church of Liberia.
Bishop Doyle, who is visiting the country for the first time, is here on the invitation of the Rt. Rev. Dr. James B. Sellee, Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Liberia.
During Bishop Doyle’s one week visit, he is expected to meet with senior officers and clergy of the Episcopal Church of Liberia, pay a visit to Cuttington University in Suakoko, Bong County and will attend and deliver the missionary sermon at the opening of the 89th Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church of Liberia convening March 7-9 with St. John’s Episcopal Church in Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County.
The visit is expected to further strengthen relations between the two dioceses and their bishops, the seed of which was planted when the two bishops met at the 15th Lambeth Conference in Kent, the UK in 2022. The Lambeth Conference is a decennial gathering of bishops of the Anglican Communion from around the world.
The relationship between the two dioceses dates back to the 1980s when the Reverend Emmanuel D. Hodges studied at the Episcopal Theological of the Southwest (ETSS) in Austin, TX.
The Reverend Dr. Dee Wellington Bright also studied at ETSS in the 1990s and served several churches there during and after his studies. Currently the Reverend Edward Thompson is canonically resident in the Diocese of Texas since 2017.
