Katy Dickinson

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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20070615 Friday June 15, 2007

Bishop Election Tomorrow

The election for the 3rd Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real (ECR) is tomorrow, Saturday, 16 June. Email evaluations of the 5 candidates have been passing between the congregation members and the lay delegates and clergy of my home parish, All Saints' (Palo Alto) all week. I feel blessed to receive so much prayerful and wise advice.

I have been reading The Book of Common Prayer on the Ordination of a Bishop. It is the people of the diocese who present the bishop-elect to the Presiding Bishop for ordination saying: "...the clergy and people of the Diocese of name, trusting in the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have chosen name to be a bishop and chief pastor. We therefore ask you to lay your hands upon him and in the power of the Holy Spirit to consecrate him a bishop in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church."

Tomorrow, we choose. There is an Ballot Results ECR web page to check since electronic communication from the convention floor is forbidden by the "Rules of Order in the Convention".

Posted at 10:07PM Jun 15, 2007 by katysblog in Church  | 

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