Nashotah House seminary to get a new president

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There is a certain rhythm to life at Nashotah House Theological Seminary that has remained unchanged over the last century or so.

Seminarians shuttle between the stone buildings, some in the long, black cassocks of the clergy. Their days begin and end in prayer and ancient chant in the Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin. And they live and work in community, in keeping with the Benedictine spirituality of their founders.

But much is new on the grounds of this Episcopal seminary on the shores of Upper Nashotah Lake that has prepared students in the church's Anglo-Catholic tradition for nearly 170 years. Enrollment is up, driven in part by a distance-learning program that draws students from around the world. The school has christened a new $1.6 million building, its first in 20 years.

And, this week, Nashotah House will install a new dean and president, the Right Rev. Edward Salmon. A retired South Carolina bishop, Salmon will have to balance the school's traditional mission against shifting economic and technological forces, and lead it at a time of great division within the Anglican Communion.

"Our vision is to continue to do, impressively and strongly, what we've done for 170 years," said Salmon, a longtime Nashotah House trustee, who will be installed during a convocation Friday - where former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey is scheduled to speak.

"Sometimes institutions are buffeted by external circumstances," Salmon said. "Our call, regardless of those circumstances, is to raise up a strong priesthood for the church."

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