The Right Reverend D. Bruce MacPherson was elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Western Louisiana on April 20, 2002. On November 2 he became the third Bishop of the Diocese of Western Louisiana. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Bishop MacPherson moved as a teenager to California. Educated at Cypress College and the Episcopal School of Theology at Clairmont, Bishop MacPherson was ordained deacon and priest in 1980, after a management career in the publishing business with the Times Mirror Press/Times Mirror in Los Angeles, California.

Bishop MacPherson has served congregations in the Diocese of Los Angeles, and from 1988 to 1993 he served as canon to the ordinary and executive officer with Bishop Borsch in Los Angeles.

In 1993 Bishop MacPherson moved to Dallas with Bishop James Stanton, newly elected Bishop of Dallas, to serve as canon to the ordinary and executive officer of that diocese. Elected bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas in 1999, MacPherson was consecrated bishop on October 9, 1999, becoming the 949th bishop in the American succession.

Bishop MacPherson began his ministry in Western Louisiana on July 1, 2002 and spent four months traveling the diocese, listening and learning about the people that he was called to shepherd before his investiture in November of the same year.

With his wife of 51 years, the former Susan Dale Hegele, Bishop MacPherson has two daughters, living in California and Oklahoma, and four granddaughters.

Bishop MacPherson is a Communion Partners bishop, and has served as president of Province VII of The Episcopal Church.