[7] He would be elected and enthroned as archbishop and metropolitan of the Anglican Catholic Church at their 16th provincial synod, held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to replace the retired John Vockler in 2005.

In his inaugural charge to the synod, the newly elected metropolitan cited the stability and consensus of the ACC as its strengths, and called for greater openness to the wider tradition outside classical Anglicanism, including the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.

[9] On August 22, 2006, he offered the keynote address to the Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen on the question "What does conservative Anglicanism have to contribute to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church?

[12] In 2015, he addressed ACNA and Forward in Faith North America, stating that the Affirmation of St. Louis "situates us irrevocably within the central Tradition of Catholic Christendom" and that it is that which is "the lens through which we read and appropriate our Anglicanism".

[15] In addition to his academic publications on bioethics, he is a signatory of the Statement Opposing Brain Death Criteria released by Citizens United Resisting Euthanasia.