Rev. Young Becomes Fourth Bishop Of The Episcopal Diocese Of East Tennessee

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More than 800 local, national and ecumenical guests gathered at Church of the Ascension in Knoxville on June 25 for the two-hour ordination service of the Rt. Rev. George Dibrell Young, III as fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee.

Among the 21 bishops who were present for Young's ordination and consecration were the Rev. H. Julian Gordy, bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with which the Episcopal Church is in full communion, and the Most Rev. Richard F. Stika, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was chief consecrator. Among the co-consecrators were bishops John C. Bauerschmidt of Tennessee; Don Edward Johnson of West Tennessee; the Rt. Rev. Frank Stanley Cerveny, sixth bishop of the Diocese of Florida; the Rt. Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, eighth bishop of the Diocese of Florida; the Rt. Rev. Charles Lovett Keyser, assisting bishop of the Diocese of Florida; and the Rt. Rev. William E. Sanders, first bishop of the Diocese of East Tennessee.

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