From West Missouri-
In a colorful and joyous service, the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri today is consecrating and installing the Very Rev. Martin S. Field as its eighth bishop.
The service is at 11 a.m. in the Imperial/Colonial ballrooms of the Marriott Muehlebach Tower at 12th and Wyandotte streets.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, will be the chief consecrator. During the service, Field will be ordained a bishop, then installed as the diocesan bishop.
Field was rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Flint, Mich., from June 2003 to January 2011. An Ohio native, he served churches in Tennessee, Hawaii, Maryland and Ohio and was a chaplain in the United States Navy.
He succeeds the Rt. Rev. Barry Howe, who had led the diocese since 1998.
“An ordination service typically is one of the happiest occasions in the life of a diocese, and bishop-elect Field’s ordination is sure to be a colorful and joyous event,” said the Rev. Samuel A. Mason of Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, chairman of the ordination committee.
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http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/04/2699492/missouri-episcopalians-ordain.html#ixzz1FiznXjKi
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