Retired diocesan bishop, Book: "The Earth is the Lord's" Background: RR CEO, healthcare administrator, asst to cabinet minister, HR, campus pastor. newspaper columnist, city councilman Academics: M.Div, M.A. (history), grad study U of Lund, Sweden
The Rt Rev. Winfield Mott became the second diocesan bishop of the Diocese of the West upon the retirement of Bishop Richard Boyce November 30, 2011. He lives in Columbus, New Mexico and served the parishes in Deming and Silver City, NM from 2000 until becoming the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of the West. He also is a member of the ACNA Ecumenical Relations Task Force and the ACNA Immigration Task Force. From 2011-2013, he served as Vicar General of the Anglican Diocese of the Southwest .
In April 2016, the diocese transitioned to a convocation in the Diocese of All Saints, at which point Bishop Mott became Vicar General of the Convocation of the West. Bishop Mott retired as Vicar General on August 31, 2016.
Bishop Mott grew up in Minnesota, graduated from the University of Minnesota, received an M.Div. from Wartburg Seminary and an M.A from the University of North Dakota (with a history major and Scandinavian language minor). He also did post-graduate study at the University of Lund, Sweden. He served for a decade in campus and parish ministry in the Lutheran Church, and taught history, homiletics and liturgiology. He has had a management career in health care administration, human resources, transportation and as assistant to a cabinet minister in Manitoba and has been an elected official on a school board, city council and fire district. He is married to Micki (née Campbell) and has four adult children and seven grandchildren.
