Four people have been nominated for bishop of Western New York according to Episcopal News Service
The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York announced Aug. 16 a slate of four nominees for the diocese’s 11th bishop. They are:
the Rev. Michael N. Ambler Jr., 46, rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Bath, in the Episcopal Diocese of Maine;
the Very Rev. Canon Michael A. Bamberger, 55, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre, California, in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles;
the Rev. R. William Franklin, 63, senior associate priest at St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania; and
the Very Rev. Canon Barbara J. Price, 60, rector of St. Peter’s Church in Eggertsville, New York, in the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York
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More biographical information about the nominees is available here.
Buffalo News has the story here.