Craig Loya


Craig William Loya is the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. He was formerly Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska.

Life and career

Loya was raised in Nebraska where he graduated from North Platte High School and Hastings College. He earned a Master of Divinity from Yale in 2002. He and Melissa Tubbs married in 2004. They have two children.
On January 25, 2020, the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, the Episcopal Church in Minnesota diocesan convention elected him on the second ballot from a slate of five candidates. On the ember day of June 6, 2020, he was ordained as the tenth bishop of Minnesota at the Cathedral of St. Mark in Minneapolis. Brian Prior, the ninth bishop of Minnesota, served as chief consecrator. J. Scott Barker and Bruce Edward Caldwell were the co-consecrators.
Loya is a member of the Anglo-Catholic Society of Catholic Priests.