Mark Van Koevering is an American prelate of the Episcopal Church, who is the eighth and current Bishop of Lexington.
Van Koevering was consecrated as Bishop of Niassa, Mozambique, part of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, in 2003, where he served until November 2015.
He studied agriculture and plant breeding at university, working in Thailand, China and then as an agriculturist with DanChurchAid in Niassa, Mozambique.
He trained Trinity College, Bristol and was ordained in Wales, working under Rowan Williams, the then archbishop[clarification needed] in Newport when the people of Niassa elected him as their bishop.
In November 2015, he moved back to the United States, to become the assistant bishop at the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia.