From the Minneapolis Star Tribune-
Minnesota's 22,000 Episcopalians will be led by a 50-year-old priest from Spokane, Wash.
Delegates at the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota's 152nd annual convention Saturday voted to name the Rev. Brian Prior as their next bishop.
In doing so, they sidestepped three potentially historic choices for the 106-congregation diocese's ninth bishop: a woman, a Native American or an openly partnered lesbian.
Meeting in a downtown Minneapolis hotel ballroom, alternately singing hymns and praying silently, nearly 500 clergy and lay delegates needed five ballots to pick Prior, currently pastor at the Church of the Resurrection in Spokane.
His closest competition came from the Rev. Mariann Budde, pastor at St. John the Baptist in Minneapolis. She would have been the diocese's first female bishop in its 152-year history.
In the final vote, Prior received 271 votes to Budde's 167.
Prior will succeed Bishop James Jelinek, who is retiring in February after heading the diocese since 1993.
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