Source: Site page, "NWTX Application Essay Wright 2026.06.01" (Who We Are). Part of the page-3191807 Bishop Transition material, alongside page-3192618 (Haynie) and page-3192621 (Thomas).

Author: The Rev. Canon Andrew R. Wright, Th.D., Canon to the Ordinary, Diocese of Newark (northern New Jersey).

Ministry focus (self-described): seeking Christ in community and relationship; forming followers of Jesus for God's mission of love, mercy, and justice.

Personal

• Divorced since 2014 after 23 years of marriage; three adult children (Aidan, Naomi, Macrina); a cat, Mjölnir.
• Recently engaged to the Rev. Margaret "Margo" Peckham Clark, the other canon on Newark diocesan staff (sponsored for ordination by North Dakota).
• Enjoys storytelling (books, comics, film, theatre), community and youth theatre, art museums, stargazing.

Formation and NW Texas roots

• Born, baptized, raised at St. Peter's, Borger, Diocese of Northwest Texas; acolyte, Sunday School, youth group.
• Diocesan youth ministry was formative: summer camp in Amarillo, Happening, Diocesan Convention with family.
• Texas Christian University, Fort Worth: began in physics/math and Air Force ROTC, switched to Philosophy; prayed in a 24-hour chapel; youth minister; summers as camp counselor at Quarterman Conference Center, Amarillo.
• Began ordination process by junior year; postulancy year in Abilene (Church of the Heavenly Rest).
• Seminary in Sewanee, Tennessee; learned about conflict from a divided faculty and dean.

Ordained ministry (as far as excerpted)

• Ordained deacon 1995 by Bishop Sam Hulsey in Borger; Assistant Rector, St. Paul's, Murfreesboro, TN (youth, Christian education, campus ministry); priest 1996.
• Rector, St. James', Fremont, Nebraska, from 1999.
• Summary text is truncated; later ministry is not covered here.

See also page-3191893 (Convention 2026).