Minister
In 1990 he took up another career as a minister in a Christian church becoming ordained first in the Elim Pentecostal Church and then an accredited minister in the Free Methodist Church of North America. He obtained a bachelors degree in Theology in 1998 through Regents Theological College and Manchester University and the degrees of Master of Religious Arts in Applied Theology and Doctor of Sacred Literature in 2006 from the Logos Christian Graduate College.
On 5 April 2009 Anthony was ordained into the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches which is an Anglicanand Celtic Communion by the Most Rev. Dr. Charles Travis, Archbishop of St. Chad's in the Province of St. Peter's.
On 26 July 2009 the Church known as Wren's Chapel was re-dedicated as Wren's Cathedral and the Order of St. Leonard was established. Carr was installed as Arch presbyter and Canon to the Ordinary by the first bishop Right Revd. Dr. David E. Carr. Finally, Anthony was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Wren's Cathedral and Suffragan Bishop of Wroxall Abbey on 20 June 2010.
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