Retired North Dakota Bishop Joins Ugandan Church

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[The LIving Church] 27 June 2007--The Rt. Rev. Andrew H. Fairfield, retired Bishop of North Dakota, has joined the Church of Uganda and will assist Bishop-elect John Guernsey in overseeing the church’s 26 US congregations, according to an announcement this morning by the Most Rev. Henry Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda.

“Now, although I am ‘retired’ from a jurisdictional and financial point of view, I seek further Christian service, especially in the process of this transition in Anglican orthodoxy,” Bishop Fairfield stated, noting that he had written to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori resigning from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church.

It was an honor to receive Bishop Fairfield into the Ugandan Church, Archbishop Orombi said, adding he would be a “great support to Bishop-elect John Guernsey and all the congregations in America that are under our care.”