Tag: Bishops

During the meeting of the House of Bishops at Camp Allen, Texas two new bishops were elected. The Rev. Canon David Bailey of Utah was elected as bishop of the Navajoland Area Mission. The Rev. Dr. James ‘Jay’ Magness was elected bishop suffragan for federal ministries. Both elections are subject to the usual consent process.

The bishops of the Episcopal Church are meeting at Camp Allen, TX. The spring meeting is more of a retreat for bishops.

Bishop Robinson will address “the world’s largest liberal Christian church with a primary outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.”

The reactions to the news that consents for Mary Glasspool’s consecration as bishop suffragan of Los Angeles and first lesbian bishop has followed the expected

Newly elected consecrated bishop of Minnesota, Brian Prior, aka “Coach” has led the Freeman High School, Rockford, WA, Scotties basketball team to a State Championship

Episcopal News Service reports the Presiding Bishop has notified Oregon and Connecticut that the canonical consent processes for their Bishops-Elect have been successfully completed.

The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church will be meeting March 19-24 at Camp Allen in Texas. They will study the episcopacy in the

“I give thanks for the Standing Commitees’ prompt action, and for the consents to the elections of my sisters,” Los Angeles Bishop Diocesan J. Jon Bruno said on March 10. “I look forward to the final few consents to come in from the bishops in the next few days, and I give thanks for the fact that we as a church have taken a bold step for just action.”

Using a time-honoured tradition of standing behind the nominee of their choice, delegates from 16 native communities in the diocese of Keewatin’s northern Ontario region elected Archdeacon Lydia Mamakwa as their first area bishop on March 6. Bishop-elect Mamakwa is an aboriginal priest from Kingfisher Lake, an Oji-Cree First Nation located north of Sioux Lookout, Ont.