New Episcopal bishop consecrated at Savannah’s historic Christ Church

From Georgia-

Following a holy ceremony combining centuries-old traditions and modern technology to abide by COVID-19 precautions, Frank Logue was ordained and consecrated as the 11th Bishop of Georgia at Savannah’s historic Christ Church Episcopal on Saturday, May 30.

After the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia elected Logue to lead as bishop in November 2019, Saturday’s ceremony was originally scheduled to take place at Savannah’s Johnny Mercer Theater to accommodate a large audience. However, after the ongoing pandemic precluded crowded gatherings, the ceremony was moved to Christ Church on Johnson Square, according to Rev. William Willoughby III of Savannah’s Collegiate Church of Saint Paul the Apostle.

On Saturday morning, Christ Church was equipped with multiple cameras so that the ceremony could be livestreamed on the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia’s YouTube channel, while chorus and clergy members participated in the ceremony online from remote locations. Bottles of hand sanitizer were placed around the pulpit, and Logue wore a face mask during the proceedings.

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https://www.savannahnow.com/news/20200530/new-episcopal-bishop-consecrated-at-savannahs-historic-christ-church

Oklahoma Episcopalians prepare to welcome new bishop

From Oklahoma-

A 50th birthday is typically considered a milestone worthy of great celebration.

Within about a week of turning 50, the Rev. Poulson C. Reed will have another reason to feel festive.
Reed is set to become the sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma in a private ceremony on May 30 at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Oklahoma City.

"Best birthday present ever," he said, joking during a recent interview.

The event had been set for April 18 and was to have been a huge celebration at Oklahoma City University, with between 3,000 and 4,000 people expected to attend.

However, the ceremony has been scaled down dramatically because of the pandemic.
"We're trying to keep everybody safe," Reed said. "I'm also very happy to have the service at St. Paul's."

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https://oklahoman.com/article/5662919/oklahoma-episcopalians-prepare-to-welcome-new-bishop

Pandemic puts some bishop retirements on hold, delays elections, alters dioceses’ consecration plans

From ENS-

Calling a new bishop isn’t a simple task under normal conditions. Add a global pandemic to the timetable, and most Episcopal dioceses have had no choice but to adjust or freeze even their best-laid plans for leadership transitions.

“We didn’t want to stop the timeline if we could possibly do it,” said the Rev. Linda Anderson, who co-chairs the Diocese of Wyoming committee that is reviewing candidates to replace Bishop John Smylie, who is retiring in early 2021. The search committee had scheduled a retreat last week with the semi-finalists, and “there were some panicky moments when we thought, this can’t possibly happen,” Anderson told Episcopal News Service.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the committee’s retreat proceeded mostly as planned – not in person, but as a two-day online video conference. For now, the Diocese of Wyoming remains on track to announce its slate of nominees this month in anticipation of an election at the diocesan convention in September.

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https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2020/05/05/pandemic-puts-bishop-retirements-on-hold-delays-elections-alters-dioceses-consecration-plans/

Folts ordained 11th bishop of Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota

From South Dakota-

Minutes after he had hands laid on him by bishops passing on apostleship from the beginning of the Christian church, newly made Bishop Jonathan Folts told his new flock they were part of Episcopal history being made on Saturday in Pierre.

“Today is the beginning of a new chapter in the life of the Diocese of South Dakota,” he told the congregation of about 320 in the theater at Riggs High School in Pierre. “It’s not a new story.”

Folts and the two-hour ceremony and worship service on Saturday, Nov. 2, told the old story, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been handed down from the beginning until today.

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https://www.capjournal.com/news/folts-ordained-th-bishop-of-episcopal-diocese-of-south-dakota/article_09a6a40c-fe4c-11e9-9f75-73e294d25318.html

New Episcopal bishop to be consecrated at Mobile Civic Center on July 25

From Alabama-

The new bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast will be ordained and consecrated at a ceremony on Saturday, July 25, at the Mobile Civic Center Expo Hall in downtown Mobile. The event is set for 2 p.m. and is expected to draw more than 1,000 people.

The Rev. J. Russell Kendrick, who was elected in February, will succeed the Rt. Rev. Philip M. Duncan II, who has served as the diocese's third bishop for more than 15 years. The Central Gulf Coast diocese includes 63 worshiping communities and about 20,000 members in southern Alabama and the Florida panhandle.

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http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2015/07/new_episcopal_bishop_to_be_con.html

New Priest Takes Command of N.J. Episcopal Diocese

From NBC New Jersey-

A priest from Florida has been installed as the 12th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.

Hundreds of people came out for a consecration ceremony that was staged Saturday at Trinity Cathedral in Trenton for the Rev. William Stokes.

He was then formally welcomed to the cathedral and seated in his new church during a service on Sunday morning.

Stokes succeeds Bishop George Councell, who stepped down earlier this year after nearly 10 years of service.

The 56-year-old Stokes formerly served as rector of St. Paul's Church in Delray Beach.


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http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/New-Priest-Takes-Command-of-NJ-Episcopal-Diocese-230425091.html

The Episcopal Diocese of NJ consecrates new bishop

From New Jersey-

The Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey will consecrate its 12th bishop at Trinity Cathedral Saturday.

The Rev. William “Chip” Stokes, 56, was elected to become the 12th bishop of the state’s diocese in May and will be consecrated at 11 a.m. at the cathedral at 801 West State St. in Trenton, the diocese said in a news release.

On Sunday, Nov. 3 at 10:30 a.m., Stokes will be formally welcomed into the cathedral and seated in his church, the release said.

The Episcopal diocese that Stokes will oversee is the sixth largest in the nation. It served 47,092 baptized members as of June, and has a 227-year history in New Jersey. Tomorrow’s service is expected to draw more than 1,500 visitors, the release said.

A block party-style reception will take place following the service in and outside of the church, said Jonathan Elliot, the diocese’s director of communication.
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http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/10/the_episcopal_diocese_of_new_jersey_consecrates_new_bishop.html

Episcopal Church installs new bishop in solemn ceremony

From New Hampshire-

The state's Episcopal Church formally installed its newest spiritual leader Saturday, as Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld was ordained as the next Bishop of New Hampshire.

“There's something as wonderful and amazing as the welcome, and that is the unique gifts that I've noticed in the Diocese of New Hampshire in each of you that I've met,” Hirschfeld said. “We are more than the sum of our parts here today.”

In a consecration ceremony that combined centuries-old rites with optimism for the future of the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire, Hirschfeld assumed the office of Bishop coadjutor.

He will serve in that capacity through the last months of the tenure of Bishop V. Gene Robinson.

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http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120805/NEWS08/708059949

Episcopalians consecrate new Alaska bishop

From Alaska-

For nearly three years, the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska was without a bishop -- but on Saturday, many church members celebrated the long-awaited consecration of a new bishop to lead the diocese.

At the First United Methodist Church in Anchorage, hundreds of people gathered to witness a historical moment for the diocese, as The Rev. Mark Lattime was installed in his new post.

“It's a wonderful day for all our peoples of the diocese,” said The Rev. Michael Burke, dean of the Southcentral Alaska deanery.

Leading Lattime’s consecration was the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, The Most Rev. Katherine Schori, along with bishops from all over the country.

“I could almost feel all that energy, all that anxiety, all of that hope going right through my body in that big response they made when they said, ‘It is their will,’” Lattime said.

Alaskans have waited a long time for a new bishop, a post Lattime is the eighth person to fill.

“It's like having a parent gone or a grandparent gone -- the family is not complete,” said the diocese’s Marty Thomas.

While members of the church showed support with their presence, Lattime's family showed their support by helping him one at a time as he was vested.

More including video here-

http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-episcopalian-bishop-consecrated-090410,0,2746979.story

Calif. Bishop Respects ‘Very Key Symbol’

From The Living Church-

Responding to requests from two bishops elsewhere in the Anglican Communion, the Bishop of El Camino Real did not attend the consecration of Bishops Diane Jardine Bruce and Mary Glasspool in Los Angeles on May 15.

A friendship began forming among the Rt. Rev. Mary Gray–Reeves and her two brother bishops — the Rt. Rev. Michael Perham, Bishop of Gloucester, England, and the Rt. Rev. Gerard Mpango, Bishop of Western Tanganyika, Tanzania — during the Lambeth Conference of 2008. The bishops formed companion relationships among their dioceses, and celebrated those new ties during a service in September 2009 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, San José, Calif.

Bishop Gray–Reeves wrote that her fellow bishops asked her to abstain from granting consent to Bishop Glasspool’s election or from participating in her consecration.

“In our system, it is consents that allow a bishop to be ordained,” Gray–Reeves wrote in a letter requested by Louie Crew, founder of Integrity, a nonprofit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Episcopalians and their supporters. “I consented to Mary’s election without hesitation. The laying on of hands makes a bishop, and in other provinces where there is no consent process like ours, this is a very key symbol.”

Gray–Reeves wrote that she “did not come easily to the decision of not attending,” adding: “But the truth is, Mary and Diane had plenty of bishops to get the job done, and my hands were not needed there on May 15th. They were needed to reach other places and so I did.”

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http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2010/5/25/el-camino-real-bishop-respects-very-key-symbol

New Episcopal bishop consecrated during four-hour service in Greenville

From Upper South Carolina-

“You are their bishop. You are our bishop. You are my bishop,” the Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson said as he handed his shepherd’s staff to the Rev. William Andrew Waldo on Saturday.

Waldo, in an elaborate four-hour service at Christ Church in downtown Greenville, became the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina, a 22-county region that includes 28,000 members from Columbia to the Upstate.

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, and with the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, officiated at the service making Waldo, 56, the 1,046th bishop in the history of the 2.4-million member Episcopal Church U.S.A. and the eighth bishop of Upper South Carolina.

More than 20 bishops from across the country laid hands on Waldo, calling on God to fill him “with such love of you and of all the people, that he may feed and tend the flock of Christ, and exercise without reproach the high priesthood to which you have called him.”

Henderson, who has led the diocese since 1995, has reached the mandatory retirement age for bishops of 72. Friends said he has bought a boat and plans to spend plenty of time fishing.

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http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20100523/NEWS/305230020/New-Episcopal-bishop-consecrated-during-four-hour-service-in-Greenville

Episcopal bishop to be consecrated today

From Upper South Carolina-

Hundreds of Episcopalians, including the leader of the U.S. church, will gather in Greenville today for the ordination and consecration of the Rev. W. Andrew Waldo as the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina.

The diocese includes eight churches in York, Chester and Lancaster counties.

The service at Christ Episcopal Church will draw Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori, presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church, leaders and laity from across the diocese, across the U.S. and at from least one foreign country with the presence of the bishop of Haiti.

It also will represent a coming home of sorts for the Georgia-born and Alabama-raised Waldo, who is returning to his native South after years as rector of a Minnesota congregation.
His brother, the Rev. Mark E. Waldo Jr., rector of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Millbrook, Ala., will preach the ordination sermon, and his father, the Rev. Mark Waldo Sr., will read a portion of the liturgy.

Two of the bishop-elect's sons will play musical selections.

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http://www.heraldonline.com/2010/05/22/2187629/episcopal-bishop-to-be-consecrated.html#ixzz0oejcLn6E

New bishop calls on faithful to join in God’s mission (video)

From Hartford-

Archbishop Desmond Tutu left no gray area when it comes to what Bishop Ian T. Douglas must do in his new ministry.

“We are thrilled that God called you to be a bishop here to remind us that we are all God’s children,” preached Tutu, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his reconciliation work after the dismantling of apartheid.

“Ian, please tell the children of God, each one of them is precious, the preciousness that cannot be computed. ... Each one of them is a member of God’s family in which there are no outsiders.

“Each one ... those louts on the street corner, the down and outs, the drug addicts. It was for them Christ died. ... Tell them that Jesus loves them. Tell them that they matter.”

Douglas, 51, was consecrated Saturday the 15th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut in a nearly three-hour ceremony attended by 2,000. St. Luke’s Church of New Haven’s steel drum band played at the beginning and end of the service, adding to the joyous air.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefforts Schori led the ceremony, in which numerous bishops laid their hands on Douglas, signifying the unbroken line of bishops stretching back to Jesus’ apostles.

More here-

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/04/18/news/aa3_ctconsecrate041810.txt

Conn. Episcopalians welcome new bishop

From Connecticut-

With all the pageantry the Episcopal Church can muster, the Rev. Ian T. Douglas was consecrated Saturday the 15th bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut.

The nearly three-hour ceremony brought together about 2,000 lay people, deacons, priests, bishops and seminary professors. Among the musicians, St. Luke’s Church steel drum band from New Haven had many, including Douglas and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who preached the sermon, swaying and clapping.

Before numerous bishops laid their hands on Douglas, signifying the unbroken line of bishops stretching back to Jesus’ apostles, the candidate made the promise required of all bishops:

“In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, I, Ian Theodore Douglas, chosen Bishop of the Church in Connecticut, solemnly declare that I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church.”

In his sermon, Tutu spoke of how God requires Christians to love everyone, no matter who they are:

“All the poor, rich, white, black, Hispanics, all, all. Clever, not so clever, beautiful, not so beautiful … tea party, Democrat, Republican. This is radical, man. This is radical.


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http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2010/04/18/news/doc4bca9a4d3c5d5253862114.txt

Episcopal Diocese to consecrate bishop

From Connecticut-

The state will be the shining star of the Anglican Communion today when the Rev. Ian T. Douglas is consecrated the 15th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.

Douglas sits on the Anglican Consultative Council, which represents Anglicans worldwide, so he is well known outside the Episcopal Church. He asked a friend, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, to be the preacher today.

Douglas, formerly professor of world mission at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., said his connections will benefit the diocese, and vice versa.

“I’m not afraid to call in favors around the world to help us in Connecticut,” he said recently. “I have a pretty good Rolodex that I would hope to utilize.”

As for his new flock, “The Diocese of Connecticut has so much to offer,” he said. “I think we need to be generously making those resources available to those beyond our boundaries.”

According to tradition, bishops are consecrated by having three other bishops lay hands on them, extending a succession said to go back to the Apostles.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefforts Schori will be chief consecrator, joined by Bishop Michael Curry of North Carolina and Edward Little of northern Indiana. Douglas said he chose them because they are diverse in race, sex and theology, and so represent “the catholicity of the church.”

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http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/04/17/news/bb9_tepiscopal_bishop041710.txt