Archdeacon of Southeast Florida Elected Bishop of El Camino Real

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[The Living Church] 17 June 2007--The coastal California Diocese of El Camino Real elected as its next Bishop the Ven. Mary Gray-Reeves, Archdeacon for the Diocese of Southeast Florida, June 16 on the second ballot.

Archdeacon Gray-Reeves had clearly impressed the delegates during the five walkabouts earlier in the month, which had drawn more than 1,000 parishioners. She received 63 of the 114 clergy votes and 101 of the 206 lay votes on the first ballot. With three more lay votes, Ms. Gary-Reeves would have received the necessary majorities.

Archdeacon Gray-Reeves told parishioners at one walkabout June 8 that she was one of only two priests and one bishop in Florida to have voted as delegates to affirm the election of the Rev. Canon Gene Robinson as Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire. She said she doubted that she could be called to serve in another church in Florida as a result of that vote.