Pending required consents, Martin Scott Field will become the eighth bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri.
Field, who’s currently a Michigander serving St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Flint, was elected yesterday on the third ballot.
From ENS:
During the search process, Field, who also serves currently as assistant to the bishop for congregational life and dean of the Flint River Valley Convocation in the diocese of Eastern Michigan, had said he would bring gifts of consensus-building and visionary leadership to the diocese of 50 congregations in the western half of Missouri.
He described his ministry experience as rural, urban and suburban in “settings racially homogeneous as well as settings resplendent with wide racial and ethnic diversity,” in a written statement posted on the Missouri website.
His ministries have been varied, he added. He has served as a solo priest and has supervised a staff as large as a dozen employees, administered $1.5 million budgets and managed multiple parish properties valued at over $10 million, initiated communitywide ministries and participated in joint government and faith-based community initiatives.