our bishops

Archbishop Kristina Rake, M.A.T.S, Primate

Pronouns: Her/She

The Most Reverend Kristina Rake is the Presiding Archbishop & Primate of the American Apostolic Old Catholic Church. Bishop Rake holds a Masters Degree in Theology and Scripture from Andover Newton at Yale Divinity. She is a curriculum development specialist, test developer, and standardized test expert. She has written several public school textbooks and tests, such as the SAT, ACT, WorkKeys, PARCC, LSAT, and GRE. She has contributed hundreds of essays and articles on topics ranging from stem cell research to quantum physics to elementary, high school, and college texts. She is also the author of God and the Paranormal: Ghosts, Mediums, and the Afterlife in the Bible and serves as a consultant on television and movie documentaries.

However, most of her work has been in the field of theology, particularly Dogmatic & Biblical Theology and Demonology & the Occult. Bishop Rake is a lecturer and has won several awards for public speaking, teaching, and writing. She is a longtime member of Mensa. 

Bishop Rake is married to her husband, Mark, of 24 years and has two children. 
Bishop Rake can be reached by email here