{{short description|Canadian Anglican bishop}} {{use Canadian English|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend | name = David Lehmann | honorific_suffix = D.D. | title = Bishop of Caledonia | image = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | church = Anglican Church of Canada | province = British Columbia and Yukon | diocese = Caledonia | term = Since 2018 | predecessor = William Anderson | successor = | other_post = | previous_post = | ordination = May 22, 1994 (diaconate)<br/>March 26, 1995 (priesthood) | ordained_by = Chris Williams | consecration = January 18, 2018 | consecrated_by = John Privett | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | baptised = <!-- will not display if birth_date is entered --> | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = <!-- as birth_place --> | buried = <!-- or | tomb = --> | education = {{unbulleted list|Camrose Lutheran College (B.A.)|Wycliffe College, Toronto (M.Div.)|Trinity Anglican Seminary (D.Min.)}} | module = {{Infobox military person |embed = yes |embed_title = Military service |branch = Canadian Forces Naval Reserve |service_years = 1991–2010 |rank = }} }} {{distinguish|David Lehman}} '''David Thomas James Lehmann''' is a Canadian Anglican bishop. Since 2018, he has been bishop of Caledonia in northern British Columbia.
==Early life and education== Lehmann was born in Toronto and raised in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, where his parents moved for work.<ref name="AJ-2025">{{cite news |last1=Puddister |first1=Matthew |last2=Frankling |first2=Sean |title=Harper, Kerr-Wilson, Lehmann and Walsh-Shaw chosen as candidates for next primate |url=https://anglicanjournal.com/harper-kerr-wilson-lehmann-and-walsh-shaw-chosen-as-candidates-for-next-primate/ |access-date=18 April 2025 |work=Anglican Journal |date=April 4, 2025}}</ref> He was educated at Camrose Lutheran College in Alberta, where he graduated in 1990 with a B.A. in history. He went to seminary at Wycliffe College in Toronto.<ref name="GS-2025">{{cite web |title=The Right Reverend David Lehmann |url=https://gs2025.anglican.ca/election/david-lehmann/ |website=Primatial Election |publisher=General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada |access-date=18 April 2025}}</ref> In 1991, Lehmann entered the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve, serving until 2010 in chaplaincy ministry.<ref name="GS-2025" />
==Ordained ministry== Lehmann was ordained to the diaconate in 1994 and the priesthood in 1995 in the Diocese of The Arctic, where he was incumbent in Fort Simpson from 1994 to 2000. He was then a rector in a multipoint parish in Alberta from 2000 to 2005 and of the church in Fort Saskatchewan, both in the Diocese of Edmonton. He returned to Fort Smith as rector of the Anglican church there from 2012 to 2018. In addition to his parish ministry, Lehmann was a regional dean in both dioceses, a chaplain for local police and fire department units, and a leader in cultural organizations, including chairing the board of the Northern Life Museum and Cultural Centre the serving on the board of governors of the National Trust for Canada.<ref name="GS-2025" /> He was also involved in bringing Messy Church to the Diocese of the Arctic.<ref name="AJ-2017">{{cite news |last1=Kidd |first1=Joelle |title=Diocese of Caledonia elects Arctic priest as new bishop |url=https://anglicanjournal.com/diocese-caledonia-elects-arctic-priest-new-bishop/ |access-date=18 April 2025 |work=Anglican Journal |date=October 25, 2017}}</ref>
===Episcopacy=== In October 2017, Lehmann was elected bishop of Caledonia on the 20th ballot. His election followed a contentious period in the diocese, which had elected Jacob Worley as bishop in 2017 to succeed the retired William Anderson. However, the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon bishops refused to grant consent to Worley's election due to his prior involvement with Anglican realignment groups in the United States. At the time of his election, Lehmann identified his churchmanship as broad and his theology as "lean[ing] toward conservative evangelical." He was opposed to same-sex marriage in the Anglican Church of Canada.<ref name="AJ-2017" />
Lehmann was consecrated to the episcopacy on January 18, 2018, at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Prince Rupert. During his episcopacy, he has been chairman of the Council of the North (a group of smaller and remote dioceses in Canada that receive assistance from the General Synod, a member of the Council of General Synod and chairman of the board of governors of Vancouver School of Theology.<ref name="GS-2025" /> Lehmann was a candidate to serve as Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada in the June 2025 election by the General Synod; Shane Parker was elected.<ref name="Primate-Finalist">{{cite web |last1=Perry |first1=Alan |title=Order of Bishops nominates four bishops for the office of Primate |url=https://gs2025.anglican.ca/articles/order-of-bishops-nominates-four-bishops-for-the-office-of-primate/ |website=General Synod 2025 |publisher=Anglican Church of Canada |access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref>
==Personal life== During his episcopacy, Lehmann completed a doctorate of ministry at Trinity Anglican Seminary. He is unmarried.<ref name="AJ-2025" />
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