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{{short description|Anglican bishop in North America}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Reverend]]
| name = Julian M. Dobbs
| title = Bishop of the Diocese of the Living Word
| image = Bishop Julian Dobbs.jpg
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| church = [[Anglican Church in North America]]
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| see =
| term = 2011–present
| predecessor = See created
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| ordination = 1991
| consecration = 25 September 2011
| consecrated_by = [[Nicholas Okoh]]
| rank = 
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| birth_place = New Zealand
| death_date =
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| spouse = Brenda Dobbs
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'''Julian M. Dobbs''' (born 1968) is a [[New Zealand]]-born American [[bishop]]. He serves as the [[diocesan bishop]] of the [[Anglican Diocese of the Living Word]] (ADLW), a jurisdiction of the [[Anglican Church in North America]]. Dobbs' ministry as a bishop includes overseeing congregations and clergy of the diocese. He became a naturalized citizen of the [[United States]] on February 7, 2014.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

==Early career==
Dobbs was born and raised in New Zealand, where he married his wife, Brenda, they have three children. Son Sam is married to Paige Dossett. Daughter Grace is married to Lt. Commander David Welborn, and daughter Frances married to Austin Garlick. He and his wife have two grandchildren. In 1991, he was ordained in the [[Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia|Anglican Church in New Zealand]]. He has an L.Th., Th.M. and a D.D.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} He [[Church planting|planted three congregations]], led the fastest-growing congregation in New Zealand and hosted a weekly hour-long television show in [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]].<ref name=ACNA>{{cite web|title=New Bishops Elected for North America|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/206|date=March 5, 2011|accessdate=September 22, 2012}}</ref>

In 2004, Dobbs became executive director of the Barnabas Fund, promoting awareness of the [[persecution of Christians]] around the world, particularly in [[Laos]], [[Malaysia]], [[Syria]], [[Egypt]] and [[North Korea]]. In the aftermath of the [[Indian Ocean tsunami]], Dobbs' relief work in [[Aceh]], Indonesia, was recognised by the New Zealand government with the [[New Zealand Special Service Medal#New Zealand Special Service Medal (Asian Tsunami)|New Zealand Special Service Medal]].<ref name=CANA-PR>{{cite web|title=CANA Welcomes Julian Dobbs as Canon Missioner |url=http://canaconvocation.org/articles/cana-welcomes-julian-dobbs-as-canon-missioner |date=December 8, 2008 |accessdate=September 22, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311004349/http://canaconvocation.org/articles/cana-welcomes-julian-dobbs-as-canon-missioner |archivedate=March 11, 2014 }}</ref> In 2006, Dobbs and his family relocated to the [[Washington, D.C.]] area where he continued to work at the Barnabas Fund.

==CANA ministry==
In 2008, Dobbs was appointed [[archdeacon]] and canon missioner in the [[Convocation of Anglicans in North America]], where he contributed to clergy development, worked to help North American Anglicans understand and the challenges posed by the rise of [[Islam]] in Africa, and develop a West African-American clergy and lay mission partnership.<ref name=CANA-PR /> To continue this and other gospel work, he was elected a bishop for CANA and the Church of Nigeria in spring of 2011, and consecrated by [[Nicholas Okoh]] in [[Lagos]] on September 25, 2011.<ref name=Virtue>{{cite web|title=Julian Dobbs and Felix Orji Made CANA Bishops |url=http://canaconvocation.org/articles/julian-dobbs-and-felix-orji-made-bishops |date=September 26, 2011 |accessdate=September 22, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227081932/http://canaconvocation.org/articles/julian-dobbs-and-felix-orji-made-bishops |archivedate=December 27, 2013 }}</ref> He was also elected and received as a member of the College of Bishop of ACNA at the same time during a bishops meeting in Long Beach, California. Dobbs has been active in opposing and publicizing the [[Boko Haram]] [[Nigerian Sharia conflict|attacks on Christians in northern Nigeria]] and calling for international prayer and action.<ref name="Boko">{{cite web|last=Dobbs|first=Julian|title=Pray for Nigeria|url=http://www.churchandislam.com/Church_and_Islam/Comments/Entries/2012/1/4_Pray_for_Nigeria.html|date=January 4, 2012|accessdate=September 22, 2012}}</ref> In August 2012, Okoh visited Washington, D.C., and through Dobbs' connections met with policymakers and officials to promote action against the Muslim militants in the north.<ref>{{cite web|title=Archbishop Okoh to Visit the United States in August |url=http://canaconvocation.org/articles/archbishop-okoh-to-vist-the-united-states-in-august |date=June 28, 2012 |accessdate=August 23, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621021546/http://canaconvocation.org/articles/archbishop-okoh-to-vist-the-united-states-in-august |archivedate=June 21, 2013 }}</ref> He served on ACNA's task force on Christian-Muslim relations.<ref name="ACNA" />

On May 7, 2013, in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Dobbs became the first bishop of the newly formed Missionary Diocese of CANA East.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=17526#.UZWTyJXlnfh|title =VirtueOnline – the Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism}}</ref> CANA East stretches from Maine to Miami and from Tulsa, OK and The Bronx, NY. The diocese (now the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word) has 43 congregations and over 125 clergy.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} When it was created, the diocese was one of the three dioceses formed out of The Convocation of Anglicans in North America. It is also a diocese of the ACNA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adlw.org/welcome|title=Anglican Diocese of the Living Word|website=www.adlw.org}}</ref>

Dobbs attended the GAFCON 2 meeting in Nairobi Kenya in 2013 and served at that time as a member of the International Board of [http://www.barnabasfund.org Barnabas Fund], an organization that supports suffering Christians.

In 2013 Dobbs wrote an open letter to the President of the United States, [[Barack Obama]], calling for urgent intervention in support of persecuted Christians in Syria.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://storage.cloversites.com/canadioceseoftheeast/documents/Open%20Letter%20to%20the%20President%20re%20Syria%20(August%202013)_2.pdf|title=Letter of Bishop Julian Dobbs to the President of the United States, August 20, 2013}}</ref>

In January 2014, Dobbs was appointed as the Missionary Bishop of CANA by the Most Rev. Nicholas D. Okoh, Primate of all Nigeria. he remained diocesan bishop while taking on the additional responsibilities of providing oversight and leadership to CANA's overall ministry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://storage.cloversites.com/canadioceseoftheeast/documents/Missionary%20Bishop%20CANA%202014.pdf|title=Read the media release here.}}</ref>

Dobbs wrote his first pastoral letter to CANA on January 24, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://storage.cloversites.com/canadioceseoftheeast/documents/Pastoral%20letter%20JMD%20Jan%202014.pdf|title=Bishop Julian Dobbs Pastoral Letter to CANA, January 24, 2014}}</ref> In September 2014, Dobbs spoke at the "In Defense of Christians" forum in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of activists, including Christian clergy from across the Middle East and more than a dozen members of Congress attended a three-day conference aimed at training a serious policy-impacting force in Washington to protect persecuted Christians overseas. Dobbs presented a paper entitled "Why Christianity is Vital To the Middle East". He said: "Christianity is intrinsically linked to the Middle East. It is in the Middle East that Christianity was birthed in the backwaters of the Roman Empire and from where the message of the Christian gospel spread throughout the Roman Empire, to Ethiopia, and to the Persian Empire."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://juliandobbs.com/2014/09/11/why-christianity-is-vital-to-the-middle-east-bishop-julian-dobbs/|title=Why Christianity Is Vital to the Middle East – Bishop Julian Dobbs|date=September 11, 2014}}</ref>

As missionary bishop, Dobbs presided over the 10th anniversary of the founding of CANA. In his anniversary address, Dobbs said, "CANA was missionary then and she is missionary now. As a Convocation we exist not only as a jurisdiction for the 120 congregations and 450 clergy and chaplains who serve as members of our Convocation, we exist as a missionary movement called by Almighty God to replant biblical missionary Anglican Christianity across North America. This is the mission to which we in CANA have all been called by Almighty God."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://storage.cloversites.com/cana/documents/Pastoral%20Address%202015.pdf|title=Pastoral address.}}</ref>

==Living Through the Word==
In 2019, Bishop Dobbs became the main host of Living Through the Word podcast. In the inaugural episode Bishop Dobbs interviewed his mentor, Bishop Martyn Minns.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adlw.org/media/779237-3240740-1941900/001-an-interview-with-bishop-martyn-minns|title=Anglican Diocese of the Living Word | 001: An interview with Bishop|website=www.adlw.org}}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

== Anglican Diocese of the Living Word and ACNA ==

Dobbs is the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word (formerly CANA East).{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} He oversees the ministry of the diocese across 19 states with missions in Japan and Haiti.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} Two bishops serve with Dobbs, Bishop William Love and Bishop David Bena. Dobbs remains committed to the gospel once for all entrusted to the saints, the planting of new congregations, Christian discipleship, engaging the world with the good news of Jesus and sharing the gospel of Jesus.

The diocese has 43 congregations and over 120 clergy.He was referred to as the '[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/anglican-julian-dobbs-the-based-bishop/ based bishop' in 2022] by author and journalist, Rod Dreher. Dreher wrote, "I’ve been this week at the conference of the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word (ACNA), led by Bishop Julian Dobbs. The bishop gave his annual address on Friday morning, and … Lord have mercy, if only ten percent of bishops and pastors talked like this man, we would be living in a different country."{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} In that address Bishop Dobbs said, "Courage is not something that regularly appears in the conversation and discipline of many North America Christians. With respect, being a Christian in North America today does not always require a whole lot of courage. But brothers and sisters, as the clouds around our nation begin to gather and the powers of darkness extend their influence, we the followers of Jesus Christ in this generation must ready ourselves to act, where necessary, with courage."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dreher |first1=Rod |title=Julian Dobbs, The Based Bishop |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/anglican-julian-dobbs-the-based-bishop/ |website=The American Conservative |access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}
In 2023 Bishop Julian Dobbs presided over the inaugural case of the Provincial Tribunal of the Anglican Church in North America. He served as presiding judge with 6 other elected judges. The court issued its initial decision in June 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Kate |date=2023-06-07 |title=Provincial Tribunal Opinion, June 6, 2023 |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/provincial-tribunal-opinion-june-6-2023/ |access-date=2025-06-16 |website=The Anglican Church in North America |language=en-US}}</ref>

Consecrated as a bishop in 2011, Bishop Dobbs is one of the longest serving active diocesan bishops in the ACNA.

In 2024, Archbishop Steve Wood appointed Bishop Dobbs as Chair of the Global Mission and International Relations Task Force in the Anglican Church in North America. It was in that capacity that Bishop Julian made a visit to Israel in late September 2024 to hear from family members of hostages from October 7, meet with Palestinians Christians, and others. Bishop Julian was interviewed on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcwcOsMnhlQ&t=169s Anglican TV about this ministry]

== Personal life ==
Since 2006, Bishop Dobbs and his wife, Brenda, have made their home in Northern Virginia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anglican Diocese of the Living Word {{!}} Our Bishops |url=https://www.adlw.org/leadership/our-bishops |access-date=2025-06-16 |website=www.adlw.org}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Commons}}

==External links==
*[https://www.adlw.org/welcome Anglican Diocese of the Living Word | Welcome]

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