Grant LeMarquand (born 1954) is a Canadian Anglican bishop. He was assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Egypt, serving as bishop in the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia), for the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, from 2012 to 2018. He was interim bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes, in the Anglican Church in North America, since March 2020 to February 2021.
Early years LeMarquand was born in Montreal and decided to dedicate his life to Christ as a teenager.St Philip’s Church website, Bishop Grant LeMarquand, Mission Sunday Guest Preacher and Speaker, article dated February 1, 2022Diocese of Down and Connor website, A biography of our Bible Week speaker, article dated August 28, 2018
A graduate of McGill University (1977: B.A. Honours, Religious Studies; 1982: S.T.M.; 1998: M.A. New Testament, (Directors, N.T. Wright, F. Wisse); Montreal Diocesan Theological College / Montreal Institute for Ministry (1983: Dip.Min.); Wycliffe College, Toronto (2002: Th.D. New Testament, Thesis: "An Issue of Relevance: A Comparative Study of the Story of the Bleeding Woman (Mk 5:25-34; Mt 9:20-22; Lk 8:43-48) in North Atlantic and African Contexts" (Director, Ann Jervis). In 2014 he was awarded the honorary degree of D.D. from Wycliffe College, Toronto. In 2015 he was granted the status of Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, PA, USA.Diocese of Down and Connor website, Bishop Grant LeMarquand is our Bible Week speaker in 2018, article dated September 2, 2017
Academic appointments His academic appointments include teaching New Testament and Systematic Theology at St. Paul's University, Limuru Kenya (1987–89); being Director of Extension Studies and lecturer in homiletics at Wycliffe College, Toronto (1993–98); and teaching Biblical Studies at Trinity School for Ministry, Ambridge, PA, USA (1998-2012), where he was also for a period the direction of Extension Ministries and for another time the Academic Dean.African Books Collective website, Grant LeMarquand
He has also worked at Anglican and Episcopal History as International Editor.Dictionary of African Christian Biography, Nikkel, Marc
In 2015 he was chosen as one of 38 IARCCUM (International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission) bishops.
Pastoral work Pastorally, he was a lay worker at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Westmount, Quebec (1978–80), assistant curate, St. Barnabas’ Anglican Church, Pierrefonds, Quebec (1983–85), chaplain to McGill University and Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal) (1985–86), and assistant dean of students, Wycliffe College (1990–92). He has served as honorary assistant at several parishes including Little Trinity, Toronto, St Paul's on the Hill, Pickering, and Church of the Ascension, Pittsburgh. During his career he has been licensed in the dioceses of Montreal, Mt Kenya South, Toronto, Pittsburgh and Albany.
He was ordained deacon on May 13, 1983 and priest on May 22, 1984 both ceremonies led by the Rt Revd Reginald Hollis at Christ Church Cathedral in the Diocese of Montreal. He was consecrated as bishop on April 25, 2012 Anglican Church in North America website, Trinity School Professor Appointed to 2nd Area Bishop in the Diocese of Egypt for the Horn of Africa, article dated Dec 15, 2011 at All Saints' Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt by the Most Revd Dr Mouneer Anis, which he was until 2018.
He stepped down as Bishop of the Horn of Africa in summer 2017.Anglican News website, Horn of Africa Bishop, Grant LeMarquand, to step down, article dated August 3, 2017 He had spent six years in Ethiopia,Anglican News website, Across the world, Anglicans are working to provide support and care for refugees, article by Amelia Brown dated June 20, 2018 with the Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders (SAMS-USA).Grant and Wendy webpage
After returning to the US, he took up a teaching post in Pennsylvania. Living Church website, ‘’ Bp. LeMarquand Teaches Again’’, article dated June 21, 2018’’
He took office as interim bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes, in the Anglican Church in North America, in March 2020, until the election of a new bishop.Grant LeMarquand Appointed Interim Bishop of the Diocese of the Great Lakes, Virtue Online, 25 March 2020
In 2021, The Living Church reported that LeMarquand was the only bishop in the Anglican Church in North America to sign an open letter addressed "Dear Gay Anglicans", written in response to a pastoral statement from the ACNA's College of Bishops on sexuality. The letter stated: "We commit to take practical steps to become churches where gay Anglicans can share all of their story, find community, and seek support." The letter drew criticism from ACNA leadership, including Archbishop Foley Beach, who objected to its tone and timing. It was subsequently taken down from its original website following internal church discussions. When reached for a comment by The Living Church, LeMarquand said that he had removed his name from the letter and did not want to discuss it.
Family The bishop is married to Dr Wendy LeMarquand. They have two children.Packer College website, Grant LeMarquand, Adjunct Professor, New Testament & Missions, retrieved 2024-03-05
Bibliography Books
Journals edited "What is at Stake in the Anglican Crisis?" Trinity Journal for Theology and Ministry 2/2 (2008) "Deeply Engaged: Eclectic Studies in Honor of Steven Smith." Trinity Journal for Theology and Ministry 2/1 (2008) "Anglicanism Past and Future: Studies in Honor of Leslie P. Fairfield." Trinity Journal for Theology and Ministry 1 (2007) "Anglicanism and the Bible." Anglican and Episcopal History 75/4 (2006) "‘Death Has Come to Reveal the Faith’: Stories and Studies from the Sudan." Anglican and Episcopal History 71/2 (2002) "Essays on the Anglican Church in China 1844-1997." Anglican and Episcopal History 67/2 (1998) "Nineteenth-Century Anglican Missionaries in China, Japan, Africa, Latin America and the American West." Anglican and Episcopal History 66/3 (1997) "Nippon Sei Ko Kai: Essays on the Church in Japan." Anglican and Episcopal History 65/4 (1996)
Book Chapters / Dictionary entries "Anglicans in the Horn of Africa: From Missionaries and Chaplains to a Missionary Church," Oxford.... [with Paul Marshall] "Persecution and Martyrdom" in William Dyrness, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Simon Chan, Nzash Lumeya & Juan Francisco Martinez, eds, Global Dictionary of Theology (Downers Grove: IVP, 2008): 648-52 "‘Crushing the Serpent’s Head’ (Gen 3:15): A North African Woman and the Promise to Eve," pp. 45-68 in Jean-Bosco Matand Bulembat, Paul Bere, Mary Sylvia Nwachukwu and Anthony I. Umoren (eds.), Women in the Bible: Point of vue [sic] of African Biblical Scholars. *Proceedings of the Fifteenth Congress of the Panafrican Association of Catholic Exegetes / Les femmes dans la Bible: Point de vue des exegetes africains. Actes du quinzieme congrès de l’Association Panafricaine des Exégètes Catholiques. Lusaka (Zambia), from the 5th to the 11th September 2011. (Abijan: APECA / PACE, 2013). "The Queen of Sheba and Solomon’s Wisdom: A Biblical in Ethiopian Tradition," pp. 263–75 in Jean-Bosco Matand Bulembat (ed.), Human Wisdom and Divine Wisdom in the Bible: Biblical Readings in the Context of the Church as Family of God in Africa. Proceedings of the Twelfth Congress of the Panafrican Association of Catholic Exegetes./ Sagesse humaine et sagesse divine dans la Bible: Lectures bibliques dans le contexte de l’Eglise Famille de Dieu en Afrique: Actes du douzième congrès de l’Association Panafricaine des Exégètes Catholiques. Mélanges offerts à S.E. Mgr Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya à l’occasion de ses 25 ans d’épiscopat. Kinshasa, du 04 au 11 septembre 2005. (Nairobi: APECA / PACE, 2007) "The Anglican Church of Kenya," pp. 287–97 in Charles Hefling & Cynthia Sattuck, eds. The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey (N.Y.: Oxford, 2006) "Siblings or Antagonists? The Ethos of Biblical Scholarship from the North Atlantic and African Worlds," pp. 61–85 in David Tuesday Adamo, ed. Biblical Interpretation in African Perspective (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2006) [with Paul Marshall] "Martyrdom," pp. 417–19 in Campbell Campbell-Jack, Gavin McGrath, C. Stephen Evans, eds. New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (Leicester: IVP, 2006) "Racism," pp. 588–91 in Campbell Campbell-Jack, Gavin McGrath, C. Stephen Evans, eds. New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (Leicester: IVP, 2006) "African Biblical Interpretation," in Kevin Vanhoozer, Craig Bartholomew, Daniel Treier and N.T. Wright, eds. Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005): 31-34. "‘Prophesy! Who Struck You?’ (Mark 14:65): Understanding a Gospel Text with Africa Help," pp. 171-82 in Jean-Bosco Matand Bulembat, ed. Prophecy and Prophets in the Bible: Requirements of Prophetism in the Church as Family of God in Africa: Proceedings of the Eleventh Congress. Cairo, Egypt: September 6th-12th, 2003 (Kinshasa: Association Panafricaine des Exegetes Catholiques / Panafrican Association of Catholic Exegetes, 2004) "Introduction," pp. 1–3 in Joseph Galgalo and Grant LeMarquand, eds. Theological Education in Contemporary Africa (Eldoret, Kenya: Zapf, 2004) "Biblical Reflections on a Panel Discussion on ‘Disability," pp. 211–18 in Joseph Galgalo and Grant LeMarquand, eds. Theological Education in Contemporary Africa (Eldoret, Kenya: Zapf, 2004) "Learning to Read the Bible in Limuru," pp. 63–82 in Joseph Galgalo and Grant LeMarquand, eds. Theological Education in Contemporary Africa (Eldoret, Kenya: Zapf, 2004) "The Changeless, The Changeable, and the Changing: Thoughts on the future of Anglicanism(s)," pp. 1–22 in John Kater, ed. Epiphany West 2003. Anglicanism(s): Identity and Diversity in a Global Communion (Berkeley: CDSP, 2003) "From Creation to New Creation: The Mission of God in the Biblical Story," pp. 9–34 in Ian Douglas, ed. Waging Reconciliation: God’s Mission in a Time of Globalization and Crisis. (New York: Church Publishing, 2002) with Eliud Wabukala "Cursed Be Everyone Who Hangs on A Tree: Pastoral Implications of Deuteronomy 21:22-23 and Galatians 3:13 in an African Context," pp. 350–59 in Gerald O. West and Musa W. Dube, eds. The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories and Trends (Leiden: Brill, 2000) "New Testament Exegesis in (Modern) Africa," pp. 72–102 in Gerald O. West and Musa W. Dube, eds. The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories and Trends (Leiden: Brill, 2000) "Bibliography of the Bible in Africa" pp. 633–800 in Gerald O. West and Musa W. Dube, eds. The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories and Trends (Leiden: Brill, 2000) "‘There is a Way that Seems Right, but that Way Leads to Death’: A Sermon for Ash Wednesday," pp. 94-100 in Chris Barrigar & Grant LeMarquand, eds. The True and Living Word: Sermons from the Community of Wycliffe College (Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1998) "The Historical Jesus and African New Testament Scholarship," pp. 161–80 in Michel Desjardins and William Arnal, eds. Whose Historical Jesus? (Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 7; Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1997) [with Alister E. McGrath, James I. Packer & John Paul Weston] "Anglicanism Today: The Path to Renewal," pp. 53–63 in George Egerton, ed. Anglican Essentials: Reclaiming Faith within the Anglican Church of Canada (Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1994)
Journal articles "Editorial: What is at Stake in the Anglican Crisis?" Trinity Journal for Theology and Ministry 2/2 (2008): 5-13 "Editorial: Deeply Engaged," Trinity Journal for Theology and Ministry 2/1 (2008): 5-7 "‘As you are going’ (Mt 28:19): Some Reflections on ‘Unintentional Mission’" Trinity Journal for Theology and Ministry 2/1 (2008): 40-50