A week ahead of his investiture, or formal installation, in South Carolina on Oct. 30, Wood spoke to RNS.
Before he was elected as the third archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, Steve Wood was one of the earliest COVID-19 patients in the United States, placed on a ventilator for 10 days in March 2020.
Two years earlier, as bishop of the Carolinas and rector of St. Andrew’s Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Wood watched as his church building was engulfed in a fire.
“I wouldn’t trade any of those experiences for where I am right now, because God has been…”
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