New Episcopal bishop consecrated during four-hour service in Greenville

From Upper South Carolina-

“You are their bishop. You are our bishop. You are my bishop,” the Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson said as he handed his shepherd’s staff to the Rev. William Andrew Waldo on Saturday.

Waldo, in an elaborate four-hour service at Christ Church in downtown Greenville, became the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina, a 22-county region that includes 28,000 members from Columbia to the Upstate.

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, and with the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, officiated at the service making Waldo, 56, the 1,046th bishop in the history of the 2.4-million member Episcopal Church U.S.A. and the eighth bishop of Upper South Carolina.

More than 20 bishops from across the country laid hands on Waldo, calling on God to fill him “with such love of you and of all the people, that he may feed and tend the flock of Christ, and exercise without reproach the high priesthood to which you have called him.”

Henderson, who has led the diocese since 1995, has reached the mandatory retirement age for bishops of 72. Friends said he has bought a boat and plans to spend plenty of time fishing.

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