Bishop David McMannes resides in Sedona, Arizona. He was ordained Deacon in 1976 and Priest in 1977, both by the Ordinary of the Diocese of Los Angeles, The Right Reverend Robert Claflin Rusack. He served various parishes in the Dioceses of Los Angeles, Montana, and Arizona.
In 1987 he and a handful of faithful Episcopalians withdrew from ECUSA, and founded the parish of Saint Luke's Church in Sedona, Arizona. Associating with the Anglican Province of Christ the King, he was consecrated Bishop on June 10, 1995, by the Right Reverend Robert Sherwood Morse of the Anglican Province of Christ the King (A.P.C.K.), who was assisted by Bishops James Clark and Edward LaCour, both of the Diocese of the Southern States of the A.P.C.K. While affiliated with the A.P.C.K. McMannes served as Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of the West and was also the organizing and first Ordinary of the Diocese of the Southwestern States, A.P.C.K. He is now the Ordinary of the Anglican Diocese of Arizona, and in communion with various continuing church jurisdictions.