Local leader has vision for future

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[The Bakersfield Californian] 26 Dec 2007--Through the Episcopal Church’s schism ordeal — the latest development in which was the San Joaquin Diocese’s vote earlier this month to secede and become Anglican — some are asking, “Whatever happened to the Rev. Mark Lawrence?”

Lawrence is the rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Parish downtown. In October, he was definitively elected bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina after a year-long ordeal in which Lawrence’s first election, in September 2006, was declared “null and void” on a technicality by the Episcopal Church’s U.S. presiding bishop, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori.