Sunday, June 10, 2007

South Carolina Sets Aug. 4 Bishop Election

http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3428

[The Living Church] 10 June 2007--Clergy and lay delegates to the reconvened 2006 annual convention in the Diocese of South Carolina overwhelmingly approved two measures at St. James’, James Island. These will permit the diocese to suspend normal bylaws and return to St. James’ for a special electing convention on Aug. 4.

South Carolina has been without a diocesan bishop since the Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr., reached the mandatory retirement age of 72 in January 2006. He continues to serve as acting bishop by invitation of the standing committee. Last September a special electing convention overwhelmingly chose the Very Rev. Mark L. Lawrence, rector of St. Paul’s, Bakersfield, Calif., as Bishop of South Carolina on the first ballot, but national church canons require consent from a majority of standing committees and bishops with jurisdiction before a bishop-elect can be consecrated. Fr. Lawrence failed to receive enough correctly notarized consents from standing committees within the 120-day period.

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