The Rt. Rev'd Louis Chopin Cusachs was consecrated in Covington, Louisiana in March 2003, for the Diocese of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas of the American Anglican Convocation. He founded St. Athanasius Anglican Church in 2004. In 2004 he and his wife, Carol Lee Cusachs, M.Ed., L.P.C. completed the building which serves as their home, a small retreat center, and temporary church.

Choppy Cusachs has had careers in academia and industry before preparing for orders. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, in 1956, but was found not physically qualified for a commission. He entered Northwestern University, Evanston, from which he received the Ph.D. degree in chemistry. Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to France, renewed for a second year, he completed a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures in theoretical physics. Thirty years later he took an M. Div. at the Houston Graduate School of Theology with major in pastoral counseling and a Licentiate in Theology at St. George's Anglican Seminary. At the Naval Academy he was Literary Editor of the Trident Magazine, President of the Spanish Club, and Manager of Intercollegiate Debate. After lecturing at the University of Valencia, Spain, under the Fulbright program, Cusachs was appointed to the chemistry faculty of Tulane University, New Orleans. He lectured at the National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina on another Fulbright grant before moving to Loyola University as Professor of Computer Science. Cusachs is author or co-author of more than seventy research papers in quantum chemistry, molecular physics, and quantum biology, and one book. He served as president of the International Society of Quantum Biology, then spent a decade in the research and development laboratories of a major oil company. Cusachs also studied and taught at the C.G. Jung Educational Center in Houston. After ordination in 1991 he was commissioned a chaplain in the Texas State Guard.