Mark Zimmerman

Mark Zimmerman is an American Anglican bishop, born in 1956. He served as the first diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Southwest, which has jurisdiction in west Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico in the Anglican Church in North America. Zimmerman's father was an Episcopal priest, and he pursued a career in ministry after completing college. He attended Trinity School for Ministry and graduated with an M.Div. in 1986. Prior to his bishopric, Zimmerman spent nine years as a priest in New Mexico. He also served as the rector of St. Francis-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Somerset, Pennsylvania, from 1999 to 2008, where he significantly grew the congregation and achieved debt-free status for the first time in its history.