From Connecticut-
With all the pageantry the Episcopal Church can muster, the Rev. Ian T. Douglas was consecrated Saturday the 15th bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut.
The nearly three-hour ceremony brought together about 2,000 lay people, deacons, priests, bishops and seminary professors. Among the musicians, St. Luke’s Church steel drum band from New Haven had many, including Douglas and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who preached the sermon, swaying and clapping.
Before numerous bishops laid their hands on Douglas, signifying the unbroken line of bishops stretching back to Jesus’ apostles, the candidate made the promise required of all bishops:
“In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, I, Ian Theodore Douglas, chosen Bishop of the Church in Connecticut, solemnly declare that I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church.”
In his sermon, Tutu spoke of how God requires Christians to love everyone, no matter who they are:
“All the poor, rich, white, black, Hispanics, all, all. Clever, not so clever, beautiful, not so beautiful … tea party, Democrat, Republican. This is radical, man. This is radical.
More here-
http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2010/04/18/news/doc4bca9a4d3c5d5253862114.txt
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