Executive Officer of the General Convention (retired)
New York, NY
A priest for over four decades, the Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe led growing urban parishes and was the founding dean of the Cathedral of St. Paul in Des Moines, Iowa.
He is the 26th Secretary of the General Convention. He also served as the Executive Officer of the General Convention from 2013 to 2024, was Canon to the Ordinary in The Diocese of California, and held numerous leadership positions throughout the Church.
Within the Anglican Communion, he was a member of the Anglican Consultative Council in 2019 and served as Provincial Secretary for over ten years.
A graduate of Harvard College, the Rev. Canon Barlowe worked on Wall Street before attending the General Theological Seminary in New York. He earned a doctorate from Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), where his research was on church planting among young adults. In 2017, CDSP also awarded him an honorary doctorate for distinguished service to the Church.
He was elected to his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2024.
He is married to the Rev. Paul Anthony Burrows, and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is involved in philanthropic work in the arts and the Church.
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