James Orin Mote


James Orin Mote was a founding member of the Continuing Anglican movement. An alumnus of Canterbury College and Nashotah House Theological Seminary, he was consecrated in the Anglican Catholic Church. He was elected as the first bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity in 1977, and consecrated on 28 January 1978 by Bishops Albert A. Chambers, Francisco Paktaghan, and Charles Doren, at in Denver, Colorado. He served as Bishop of the Diocese until 1994, when he resigned and retired to live initially in Florida, but later in Indiana. He died on April 29, 2006 in Indianapolis.