Clark Lowenfield

Clark Wallace Paul Lowenfield (born 1957) is an American Anglican bishop. Since 2013, he has been the first diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast, which has jurisdiction in southeast Texas and Louisiana, in the Anglican Church in North America.

Education, family and early career Lowenfield grew up in El Paso.

Lowenfield has served as an Episcopal priest in South Carolina and in Texas. He later served for five years as a rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in the master-planned community of the Woodlands, Texas. —some Trinity members became concerned and Lowenfield decided to leave the Episcopal Church. and Pointe with an "e" "to reflect ancient Anglican roots and to remain in keeping with the refined ethos of The Woodlands area," according to a news report

In 2010, AMIA—which had been a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America the year before—left full membership, changing its status in ACNA to "ministry partner." By the next year, the relationship between Chuck Murphy, the leader of AMIA, and its province of canonical residence, the Anglican Church of Rwanda, had broken down, and Murphy and all but two AMIA bishops removed AMIA from Rwandan jurisdiction and restructured it as a "missionary society." In early 2012, a majority of AMIA congregations elected to remain canonically in the Rwandan church and pursue full membership in the ACNA, forming PEARUSA as an interim step. Lowenfield and HopePointe were among those temporarily in PEARUSA pursuing ACNA membership.

Episcopacy Lowenfield was consecrated by ACNA Archbishop Robert Duncan at the Woodlands Methodist Church in April 2013, and the Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast was formally approved as an ACNA diocese in the summer of 2013. Lowenfield continued to serve as senior pastor of HopePointe until he was succeeded by the Rev. Travis King.

Lowenfield opposes women's ordination to the priesthood and episcopate; in 2021 he signed a Forward in Faith North America letter in 2020 that condemned the consecration of female bishops in the Anglican Church of Kenya, a GAFCON member province in communion with ACNA.

Also in 2021, the popular former Baptist Bible teacher Beth Moore disclosed that she had joined an Anglican church in the Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast, triggering criticism from some Baptist ministers. In response, Lowenfield posted on Twitter: "As her Bishop, t is an honor to serve God as Beth Moore’s spiritual oversight and covering. She is humble and grace-filled. And we pray for those who have been treating her in unChristianly ways over this past week."