From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-
A former lawyer and a mediator are among four preliminary candidates for bishop chosen by a search committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Members of the 32 parishes in the 11-county diocese have three weeks to petition for other names to be considered before the April 21 election. The preliminary slate is:
The Rev. Michael N. Ambler, Jr. rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Bath, Maine; the Rev. Dorsey W.M. McConnell, rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; the Rev. R. Stanley Runnels, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Kansas City, Mo.; and the Rev. Ruth Woodliff-Stanley, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Denver.
"One of the major emphases in the search was finding people who have worked through difficulties and major problems, and helped others to work through them. All four have had experience in that," said the Rev. George Werner, president of the diocesan standing committee.
The diocese is recovering from a 2008 split, when a majority at its annual convention voted to follow its former bishop out of the Episcopal Church. There are property disputes with the resulting Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh and, since many theological conservatives remained in the Episcopal diocese, there are also significant internal differences of perspective. Bishop Kenneth Price Jr. has served as an interim "provisional" bishop since 2009.
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