The Rt. Rev. John Clark Buchanan has been nominated to serve as provisional Bishop of Quincy. Bishop Buchanan and other newly appointed diocesan leaders must be confirmed by delegates to a special reorganizing convention to be held April 4 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Peoria, Ill.
Bishop Buchanan currently serves as the Parliamentarian of the House of Bishops. He was Bishop of West Missouri from 1989-1999, and recently completed a term as an assisting Bishop of Southern Virginia.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will call the special synod to order and will also officiate at a service of Morning Prayer prior to the start of the business meeting.
The diocese is filling positions vacated when a majority of clergy and lay delegates to the annual synod last November voted to disaffiliate from The Episcopal Church. Those congregations and clergy are now under the oversight of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.
Along with the cathedral, congregations which have committed to remaining with The Episcopal Church include St. John’s, Kewanee; St. James’, Lewistown; and St. James’, Griggsville. A minority of members from churches in Moline and Rock Island have formed a new Episcopal congregation in Moline named All Saints’.
In addition to electing new diocesan leadership, the special synod is expected to approve a new budget and rescind resolutions and articles of the constitution which separated the diocese from The Episcopal Church.
http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2009/4/3/provisional-bishop-named-for-quincy
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