The election for the 3rd Bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of El Camino Real (ECR) is tomorrow,
Saturday, 16 June. Email evaluations of the
5 candidates have been passing
between the congregation members and the lay delegates and clergy of my
home parish, All Saints’ (Palo Alto) all week.
I feel blessed to receive so much prayerful and wise advice.
I have been reading
The Book of Common Prayer on the
Ordination of a Bishop. It is the people of the diocese who present the bishop-elect to the Presiding Bishop for
ordination
saying: “…the clergy and
people of the Diocese of name, trusting in the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
have chosen name to be a bishop and chief pastor. We therefore ask you to
lay your hands upon him and in the power of the Holy Spirit to consecrate him a
bishop in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.”
Tomorrow, we choose. There is an
Ballot Results ECR web page to check since electronic communication from
the convention floor is forbidden by the
“Rules of Order in the Convention”.
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