VIRGINIA: Diocese to welcome Ted Gulick as new assistant bishop

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Retiring Diocese of Kentucky Bishop Edwin "Ted" F. Gulick Jr. will become assistant bishop in the Diocese of Virginia next year.
Virginia Bishop Shannon Johnston announced the appointment on July 15.

"As I met with the Standing Committee to discuss this appointment, we all sensed a profound call in the intersection of Bishop Gulick's deep roots in this diocese, his gifts and passion for his continuing ministry, and our common sense of how he can complement and support the vision for ministry here," Johnston said in the announcement.

A native Virginian, Gulick grew up as a member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Catlett, and attended St. George's Camp at the diocese's Shrine Mont, where he later served as a staff member. He received a bachelor’s degree from Lynchburg College and a Master of Divinity degree from Virginia Theological Seminary.

Gulick became the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky in 1994. He was a nominee for presiding bishop in 2006.

Gulick served as provisional bishop to the continuing Diocese of Forth Worth from February 2009 until Nov. 16, 2009 when retired Diocese of Northwest Texas Bishop C. Wallis Ohl was elected to succeed him.

Gulick will begin his ministry in Virginia on Jan. 1, 2011 and will assume a full schedule of visitations, as well as focusing particularly on pastoral care and response, especially for clergy and their families, Johnston said.

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FORT WORTH: Bishop asks clergy to verify decision to leave

Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth provisional Bishop Edwin F. Gulick Jr. has asked 72 members of the diocesan clergy to meet with him to verify their decision to leave the Episcopal Church with former bishop Jack Iker.

"It is not my intention in writing you this letter to trespass upon your conscience in this matter or to offer any new arguments or words of persuasion," wrote Gulick, who is also bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky, in a May 26 letter. "However, before I begin to exercise certain canonical responsibilities regarding the status of those who have left the Episcopal Church, I feel compelled to offer to meet with you, if you wish, for a conversation related to your own discernment and decision."

The clergy and Iker aligned themselves with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone by way of a series of votes at a November 15 diocesan convention. Six days later Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori inhibited Iker from exercising his ordained ministry and on December 5 announced that she had accepted what she said was Iker's renunciation of his Episcopal Church ordination. Iker has denied that he renounced his orders.

Gulick in his letter thanked the clergy "for your service as a priest or deacon in the Episcopal Church" and acknowledged that "many of you have searched your hearts and conscience and have come to a decision to join with Bishop Iker to realign your allegiance with Anglicans in the Southern Cone."

The letter noted recent meetings of the primates, or leaders, of the Anglican Communion's provinces and the Anglican Consultative Council as well as various state court legal decisions "that may well affect decisions made here in Texas."

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