From 2005-2008, Dr. Jack Lumanog was an instrumental leader gathering churches that would come together and sign the Constitution and Canons for what would later become the Anglican Church in North America.

From 2011-2019, he served the ACNA faithfully in two full time roles simultaneously as both Canon to the Archbishop as well as the Chief Operating Officer.  As Canon to the Archbishop, Lumanog assisted the Archbishop chiefly in carrying out the mission of the Province, both domestically and with international Anglican mission partners.  As Chief Operating Officer, he provided oversight for the overall function, development and administration of a denomination that consists of over 1,000 congregations in the United States, Canada and Mexico.  He also served as Corporate Secretary and National Trustee of the Anglican Relief and Development Fund-US (the world missions arm of the Anglican Church in North America) and a member of the ARDF Global Council. His notable achievements included executing annual College of Bishops, Executive Committee and Provincial Council meetings, Assembly 2012, Assembly 2014, led the investiture of Foley Beach at Church of the Apostles in 2014, Assembly 2017, establishing a self funded health insurance plan for ACNA clergy and lay employees and consolidating and modernizing a best in class pension plan and overseeing $35 million in assets as Chairman of the ACNA Retirement Plan. Dr. Lumanog also led the ACNA delegation of 400 people from North America to GAFCON Jerusalem 2018 and had oversight for the first ACNA Provincial Council meeting to take place outside of North America.

In 2015, Bishop Lumanog was one of 31 nominees under consideration to be the 7th Secretary General of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Bishop Lumanog was nominated by two Primates of the worldwide Anglican Communion for the position of Secretary General: The Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Anis (then Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East and now Archbishop of Alexandria) and The Most Rev. Stephen Than Myint Oo (Archbishop of Myanmar and Bishop of Yangon).

Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, Bishop Lumanog is a first generation American with parents from the Philippines.  

At 19, he was the youngest ever in the Assemblies of God to receive ministerial credentials.  After a journey back to the historic Christian church, he was ordained as a Deacon in 2000 and as a Priest in 2002. He was collated as Archdeacon and Canon into La Province de L’Église Anglicane au Rwanda (Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda) before transferring to the ACNA in 2012.

Long active in the Anglican realignment movement in North America, Dr. Lumanog served from 2005-2011 as Church Planter and the first Rector (Senior Pastor) of Christ the King Anglican Church in Lansing, Michigan and as the Clergy Formation Advisor preparing candidates for ordination in the Heart of North America Midwest Region of the Anglican Mission in the Americas.

Bishop Lumanog is a 1996 graduate of Cornell College, where he served as a College Trustee and President of the Cornell College Alumni Association Board of Directors being the first person of color to hold this position since the association’s establishment in 1873. He holds the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees. He is an Associate Alumnus of Nashotah House Theological Seminary and the 2016 recipient of the Meritorious Service to the Church Award from Reformed Episcopal Seminary.

Dr. Lumanog is currently pursuing post-graduate studies in Management at Harvard University through the Harvard Extension School. He is an accomplished corporate strategist with extensive experience leading high-impact clinical projects for a Fortune 20 healthcare company.

Dr. Lumanog is also a skilled classical musician and contemporary worship leader, having sung with the renowned St. Philip’s Cathedral Choir for several seasons (2018-2024). The choir, an auditioned group of professional musicians, sings for Sunday worship and special liturgies, and typically presents a major sacred choral work with orchestra each season.

Dr. Lumanog is also a lifelong martial artist, holding the rank of 6th degree grandmaster black belt in Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan, conferred by the grandmasters of the World Tang Soo Do General Federation in Seoul, Korea.  In 2021, he was inducted into the World Tang Soo Do General Federation Martial Arts Hall of Fame in Seoul by legendary 10th degree black belt Koe Woong Choung. A competitive martial artist, Dr. Lumanog holds 3 worldwide top 5 titles in the North American Sport Karate Association.