Fitzwater grew up in
West Virginia. He became a Christian in 1995. 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. 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. and the Appalachian Anglican podcast. 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. He will continue to serve as rector of Ascension, which transferred to MDAS from the
Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic and will become MDAS's new cathedral. Fitzwater was installed as the diocese's third bishop ordinary on March 21, 2025. ==References==