He began his career in ministry in 2000 as a pastor in the International Pentecostal Church of Christ, serving as a district official and on boards and committees related to foreign missions.

[1][2] In 2012, Fitzwater and his wife, Rebecca, left the Pentecostal church and began moving into Anglicanism.

Fitzwater completed a master of divinity degree at Asbury Theological Seminary and was ordained to the priesthood in 2017, at which time he planted the Church of the Ascension in Charles Town, West Virginia.

[4] In April 2024, Fitzwater was elected bishop coadjutor of the Missionary Diocese of All Saints to succeed Richard Lipka following the latter's retirement.

His election was consented by the ACNA bishops in June 2024, and Fitzwater was consecrated at Church of the Ascension on October 4, 2024.