Larry Wilson Johnson was consecrated in February 2001 by visiting Anglican Bishops to Virginia from Haiti and the United States as Bishop of Virginia and the Episcopal Visitor to Haiti. Bishop Johnson has served the Anglican Church since 1981, reading for orders under The Rev. Canon Ramsay Robertson-Kendall, Oxon, Canterbury and the Commission on Holy Orders of the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States, Anglican Catholic Church. He was made a priest in 1984 by the Rt. Rev. Wm. deJ. Rutherfoord and served as the rector at Christ Anglican Church, Warrenton, Virginia until 1990. Bishop Johnson founded St. Paul's Anglican Mission to the Poor and Imprisoned in 1983. For more than twenty years he has been a parish priest, pastoral counselor, teacher and school principal. Before joining the Clergy, he served more than twenty years in his career as an association chief executive in Washington, D.C.

Born in Raleigh and raised in the farm community of Coats, he began his professional career as a teacher in North Carolina at Cary High School. At age 25, he was promoted to the Department of Public Instruction and served as a State Supervisor of Industrial and Technical Education. Two years later, he was assigned to found the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America in Washington, D.C. Larry Johnson served as that organization's chief executive officer for twenty-three years. From 1972 until 1984 he served as the U.S. representative to the International Council on Skilled Competition in Madrid, Spain where he traveled and advised most of the industrialized nations on training and education.

During his years as an educator Larry Johnson was voted the nation's Outstanding Career and Technical Educator. During his work with the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America the organization grew to an annual enrollment of nearly 300,000 students training in 5,000 school programs throughout the United States and territories. He was received at the White House by President Ronald Reagan three times relative to his work in training, and was elected three times to serve as Chairperson of the National Coordinating Council of Student Organizations founded in the White House. His duties as chairperson included coordinating programs for approximately two million students, teachers and administrators across the United States.

He first studied at Campbell University and then at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned his B.A. He earned his Master's Degree at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. His Doctorate of Ministry was earned at Saint George's School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Bishop Johnson served six years in the USMCR. He is a Certified Association Executive (inactive) and a Diplomate in the American Psychotherapy Association. He is married to Sondra B.Johnson, an author. They have seven children and live at Front Royal, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley.

A man of missionary zeal, Bishop Johnson leads the work to build The Anglican Church of Virginia, train men for the priesthood and serve the spiritual needs of God's people. A traditional Anglican with the heart of an evangelical, Larry Johnson teaches, "It is the souls of men, women and children we must bring to Jesus Christ, because the Kingdom of God is at hand."

For more about Bishop Johnson, including his Apostolic Succession please visit: http://www.theanglicanchurch.net/bishop.html