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.

Then from 2011-2019, Dr. Jack Lumanog 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.  And 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 the Corporate Secretary and a 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. 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 (the post is currently held by the Most Revd Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon). 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 currently Archbishop of Alexandria) and The Most Rev. Stephen Than Myint Oo (Archbishop of Myanmar and Bishop of Yangon).

Bishop Jack Lumanog was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey and 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 a Deacon in 2000 and as a Priest in 2002.  He was received as a Priest and then collated as Archdeacon and Canon into La Province de L’Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda (Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda) by Bishop Thad Barnum and assisted by Bishop Frank Lyons (Anglican Diocese of Bolivia, Southern Cone) on January 19, 2007.

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 and serves his alma mater as a College Trustee and as President of the Cornell College Alumni Association Board of Directors being the first person of color named to this position since the association’s establishment in 1873. He holds the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees. Currently the Bishop is a graduate student at Harvard University Extension School for the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) degree in management. Bishop Lumanog is an Associate Alumnus of Nashotah House Theological Seminary and is the 2016 recipient of the Meritorious Service to the Church Award from Reformed Episcopal Seminary.

Dr. Lumanog is an accomplished classical musician and contemporary worship leader. He is a member of the renowned St. Philip’s Cathedral Choir – an auditioned group of professional musicians which sings for Sunday worship services and for various special liturgies throughout the liturgical year. The Cathedral Choir typically presents a major sacred choral work with orchestra each season.

Dr. Lumanog is also a lifelong martial artist and holds the international rank of 6th degree master black belt in Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan, conferred to him by the grandmasters of the World Tang Soo Do General Federation in Seoul, Korea.  He is a competitive martial arts athlete where he holds 3 worldwide top 5 titles in the North American Sport Karate Association.