The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has posted news of the nominees for the election of two bishops suffragan:
Six priests – three from the Diocese of Los Angeles and one each from San Francisco; San Jose, California; and Baltimore, Maryland – have been nominated for December’s election of two bishops suffragan in the six-county Diocese of Los Angeles. The slate was announced August 2 by the Rev. Julian Bull, chair of the Search and Nominating Committee.
Within the Episcopal Church, bishops suffragan are elected to assist the bishop of a diocese. The nominees, listed here with links to ministry and biographical information, are [click on name for more information]:
The Rev. Canon Diane M. Jardine Bruce, rector, St. Clement’s by-the-Sea Church in San Clemente, California;
The Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool, canon to the bishops in the Baltimore-based Diocese of Maryland;
The Rev. Zelda M. Kennedy, senior associate for pastoral care and spiritual growth, All Saints Church in Pasadena, California;
The Rev. John L. Kirkley, rector, St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco (Diocese of California);
The Rev. Silvestre E. Romero, rector, St Philip’s Church in San Jose, California (Diocese of El Camino Real); and
The Rev. Irineo Martir Vasquez, vicar, St. George’s Church in Hawthorne, California.
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At the Diocesan Convention in Riverside on December 4-5, two bishops suffragan will be elected from among the six nominees.
The newly elected bishops will succeed Bishop Suffragan Chester L. Talton and Bishop Assistant Sergio Carranza, who will retire in 2010 after 19 and seven years, respectively, of service to the Diocese.
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The LA Times blog has jumped on the story:
Episcopal Church leaders in Los Angeles today nominated an openly gay priest and an openly lesbian priest as bishops, becoming one of the first dioceses in the national church to test a controversial new policy that lifted a de facto ban on gays and lesbians in the ordained hierarchy.
The nominations of the Rev. John L. Kirkley of San Francisco and the Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool of a Baltimore-based diocese are likely to further inflame theological conservatives in the U.S. church and their global partners in the Anglican Communion, who have repeatedly warned about the repercussions of such action.
Last week the Diocese of Minnesota announced three nominees for bishop, one of whom — the Rev. Bonnie Perry — is openly gay. [Chicago Tribune has a story here.]
Added: Integrity has issued a statement.
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