Episcopal bishop to be consecrated today

From Upper South Carolina-

Hundreds of Episcopalians, including the leader of the U.S. church, will gather in Greenville today for the ordination and consecration of the Rev. W. Andrew Waldo as the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina.

The diocese includes eight churches in York, Chester and Lancaster counties.

The service at Christ Episcopal Church will draw Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori, presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church, leaders and laity from across the diocese, across the U.S. and at from least one foreign country with the presence of the bishop of Haiti.

It also will represent a coming home of sorts for the Georgia-born and Alabama-raised Waldo, who is returning to his native South after years as rector of a Minnesota congregation.
His brother, the Rev. Mark E. Waldo Jr., rector of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Millbrook, Ala., will preach the ordination sermon, and his father, the Rev. Mark Waldo Sr., will read a portion of the liturgy.

Two of the bishop-elect's sons will play musical selections.

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