Rejected Episcopal Priest Up Again for Election

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[The Christian Post] 20 June 2007--The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina has again nominated a conservative bishop whose first election had been thrown out.

The Standing Committee of the Diocese of South Carolina met early this month and agreed to call for a special convention to elect a bishop on Aug. 4 at St. James Church.

The unanimous nomination on June 9 of the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence as the next bishop of the diocese comes by the prediction of some bishops who felt Lawrence should have been consecrated the first time in March.

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori had declared Lawrence's first election "null and void," citing that some of the votes were electronically submitted and did not have the required signatures attached. It was the first time in over 70 years that consents for consecration of a bishop were denied.