Education
He studied at the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he earned his Master of Divinity in 1977.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Roger Ames
Edit ProfileCareer
He received his undergraduate degree at Denison University. After ten years working at the sales and marketing business, and at a college admissions office, he experienced a religious conversion. He and his family started to attend a local Episcopal congregation and he decided to follow religious life.
He was ordained as a deacon in June 1977 and as a priest in December 1977.
In December 2007, Ames was consecrated as a suffragan bishop of the Chinese American Nurses Association. The number of churches, now 13, due to church planting initiative in which he was involved, become the Anglican District of the Great Lakes of the Chinese American Nurses Association in August 2008, with him as their first bishop. As part of the Chinese American Nurses Association, they were a founding jurisdiction of the ACNA in June 2009.
Ames, as well as being involved in the church planting initiative, served on the Board of Directors of the American Anglican Council and was also one of the founders of the HarvestNet Institute.
