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Area Episcopalians elected a church historian and former divinity school president as their 11th bishop Saturday evening after more than seven hours of voting.
The Rev. R. William Franklin, who has been a priest for just five years, but spent nearly 30 years in a variety of Episcopal lay ministry roles, received the majority of votes needed from both clergy and laity of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York on the seventh ballot.
Franklin edged out the Rev. Barbara J. Price, rector of St. Peter’s Church in Amherst and the only local candidate in the four-person race.
Franklin received 46 of a possible 89 clergy votes and 95 of a possible 150 votes by lay delegates in a tally in St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral.
He said he was honored and humbled by the election and proclaimed an abiding love for the Western New York region, where his wife’s parents have lived since 1985.
“We know Buffalo very, very well. We’re coming home is the way it feels,” Franklin said in a telephone interview with The Buffalo News.
Franklin has been serving as senior associate priest at St. Mark’s Church in Philadelphia since August.
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