December 7, 2009
Dear Friends of The Christian Challenge:
Just days ago, Massachusetts Episcopal Bishop Tom Shaw gave his clergy a thumbs up on solemnizing homosexual marriages. Now the equally liberal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected The Episcopal Church's second openly homosexual bishop, who is also TEC's first lesbian prelate. Anyone who has been even half paying attention, of course, had to know that moves like this - i.e. to further entrench the "new religion" in TEC - were coming.
As you will see from the following sampling of reports related to the L.A. election, the Archbishop of Canterbury has gone through the motions of voicing anxieties and of appearing to urge non-confirmation of the suffragan bishop-elect. The question in our minds is why he is bothering with such pretense at this stage. TEC has clearly rejected any idea of restraint - with encouragement from Dr. Williams himself. The Archbishop has to date done everything in his power to prevent TEC from being disciplined or penalized by Anglican leaders for its brazen violations of historic church sexuality teaching, notably including its consecration of Gene Robinson in 2003. The most Dr. Williams has done is raise the possibility that TEC may be relegated to second class status in the global church if it fails to sign on to the proposed Anglican covenant. If that "lower" status is anything like that which he accorded TEC violators of Anglican sexuality policy at the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the Episcopal prelates have nothing to fear.
Faithfully,
Auburn Traycik
Former Editor, The Christian Challenge
Board Member, Foundation for Christian Theology
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Lesbian elected Episcopal bishop in L.A.
By Julia Duin
The Washington Times
December 6, 2009
Canon Mary D. Glasspool of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland was elected bishop on Saturday in a close race against a Los Angeles-area Hispanic cleric, making her the Episcopal Church's first openly lesbian bishop.
It was not until the seventh ballot that Ms. Glasspool, 55, an Annapolis resident, captured the election for the second of two suffragan-bishop positions in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, beating the Rev. Irineo Martir Vasquez of St. George's Church in Hawthorne, Calif., and four other candidates.
The 2.1-million-member denomination paved the way for her election last summer when it lifted a moratorium on electing gay bishops after the election of New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson six years ago caused a split in the 70-million-member Anglican Communion.
The majority of world Anglicanism opposes openly homosexual clergy, and a majority of Anglican bishops voted against allowing them at the 1998 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops in Canterbury, England.
But the U.S. Episcopal Church ignored that sanction, selecting Bishop Robinson in 2003, causing an estimated 100,000 Episcopalians to flee the denomination to more conservative churches. Four dioceses also have pulled out of the denomination in protest. They and an estimated 60 churches are entangled in lawsuits with the Episcopal Church in a fight to keep millions of dollars' worth of property and real estate.
Ms. Glasspool had 153 clergy votes, with 123 needed to win, and 203 lay votes, with 193 needed to win. Mr. Vasquez had 87 clergy votes and 177 lay votes.
Soon after her victory was announced at about 2:45 p.m. Pacific time, she appeared on stage in front of delegates at the Riverside Convention Center with her partner of 21 years, Becki Sander.
"Gracias con todo mi corazon," she said to a standing ovation. "Thank you with all my heart. It is such an honor and a privilege to be among you wonderful people of the Diocese of Los Angeles. I'm deeply and forever grateful for the trust you've shown in me ... ."
Before she can be consecrated on May 15, 2010, she will need consents from a majority of the country's 100 domestic Episcopal dioceses.
It was a weekend of firsts for the 70,000-member Los Angeles Diocese, which before this weekend never had a female bishop in its 114-year history despite the Episcopal Church having had women in the episcopate since 1988.
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Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elects openly gay bishop
By Larry Stammer in Riverside
The Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/episcopal-diocese-la.html
December 5, 2009
[Mary Glasspool] The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles today elected the first openly gay bishop since the national church lifted a ban that sought to bar gays and lesbians from the church's highest ordained ministry.
Clergy and lay leaders, meeting in Riverside for their annual convention, elected the Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool, 55, who has been in a committed relationship with another woman since 1988. Another gay candidate, the Rev. John L. Kirkley of San Francisco, withdrew late Friday.
Glasspool's election to fill one of two openings for bishops of the diocese followed the selection Friday of the Rev. Canon Diane Jardine Bruce, 53, the rector of a San Clemente church. The two became the first women elected as bishops of the diocese in its 114-year history.
But it was the endorsement of Glasspool that riveted much of the convention as well as the worldwide Anglican Communion, of which the Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch. Glasspool is the first openly gay priest to be elected bishop since the ordination of the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire in 2003.
Robinson's election threw the Episcopal Church and the global Anglican Communion into an uproar, leading to decisions by some conservative parishes and dioceses to leave the national church and resulting in a de facto ban on the election of additional gay bishops.
For a time, the Episcopal Church sought to discourage the elevation of gay and lesbian priests as bishops in hopes that strains in the 70-million-member Anglican Communion would be reduced. But the move failed to stem growing disenchantment by conservatives alarmed by the ordination of gays and lesbians, and what they saw as liberal interpretations of the Bible.
In the U.S. some Episcopal parishes, including four Los Angeles parishes, and several dioceses bolted from the national church and aligned themselves with conservative Anglican bishops in Africa and South America. So great were the possibilities of schism that the archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, implored the American church to go no farther.
But in July, the Episcopal Church reversed course at its national convention in Anaheim, voting to open the top echelons of the church to gays and lesbians. The Los Angeles diocese is the first to test that policy.
Convention delegates said that Glasspool's sexual orientation was only one factor in their decision, which came on the seventh ballot for the position. They called her a gifted priest with extensive diocesan experience in her current role as canon -- or executive assistant -- to the bishops of the Diocese of Maryland.
"I don't think it's a referendum on electing a woman or a gay person," said the Very Rev. Mark Kowalewski, dean of St. John's Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. "Those are secondary characteristics."
Home to 70,000 Episcopalians across six counties, the diocese is widely viewed as one of the most liberal in the U.S. church of 2.1 million members. Its bishop, the Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, is an outspoken advocate for the rights of gays in the church.
Glasspool and Bruce were elected to fill two openings for the position of suffragan bishop, who assist a diocese's primary bishop. The two women must be confirmed by a majority of the national church's bishops and of diocesan standing committees, which include clergy and lay representatives.
Besides Kirkley, Glasspool and Bruce, the candidates included the Rev. Zelda M. Kennedy of All Saints in Pasadena; the Rev. Irineo Martir Vasquez of St. George's in Hawthorne; and the Rev. Silvestre E. Romero of St. Philip's in San Jose.
Vasquez presented a particularly strong challenge to Glasspool; he finished with the second highest vote count and on several of the day's early ballots, he received a majority from lay delegates, while she had a majority of the clergy.
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Archbishop of Canterbury's Statement on Los Angeles Episcopal Elections
ACNS
December 6, 2009
The election of Mary Glasspool by the Diocese of Los Angeles as suffragan bishop elect raises very serious questions not just for the Episcopal Church and its place in the Anglican Communion, but for the Communion as a whole.
The process of selection however is only part complete. The election has to be confirmed, or could be rejected, by diocesan bishops and diocesan standing committees. That decision will have very important implications.
The bishops of the Communion have collectively acknowledged that a period of gracious restraint in respect of actions which are contrary to the mind of the Communion is necessary if our bonds of mutual affection are to hold.
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Archbishop fears gay vote impact
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/8398043.stm
December 6, 2009
[Archbishop Rowan Williams] The Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed his concern at the election of the second openly gay bishop in the Anglican Church.
Rowan Williams said the move raised "very serious questions" for both the Episcopal Church in the US and the Anglican Communion as a whole.
But he noted that the election of the Reverend Mary Glasspool in the diocese of Los Angeles had yet to be confirmed.
The 2003 election of the first openly gay bishop created a massive rift.
Ms Glasspool was elected on Saturday as an assistant bishop in the diocese of Los Angeles.
She needs a majority of national Episcopal Church heads to back her consecration.
The Episcopal Church leader, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, has said she will consecrate any bishop whose election follows the rules.
'Important implications'
In a statement posted on his website Dr Williams said the election "raises very serious questions not just for the Episcopal Church and its place in the Anglican Communion, but for the Communion as a whole".
"The process of selection however is only part complete," he said.
"The election has to be confirmed, or could be rejected, by diocesan bishops and diocesan standing committees. That decision will have very important implications."
Bishops of the US Episcopal Church voted in July to overturn a three-year ban on the appointment of gay bishops.
Anglican leaders had asked the Church to observe the moratorium.
"The bishops of the Communion have collectively acknowledged that a period of gracious restraint in respect of actions which are contrary to the mind of the Communion is necessary if our bonds of mutual affection are to hold," said Dr Williams.
Ms Glasspool, 55, has been a canon in the Diocese of Maryland for eight years, according to a statement by her on the website of the Episcopal diocese of Los Angeles.
It says she has been with her partner, Becki Sander, since 1988.
Traditionalists have already expressed opposition to the latest election.
Conservatives insist the Bible unequivocally outlaws homosexuality, while liberals believe the Bible should be reinterpreted in the light of contemporary wisdom.
Conservatives were incensed by the election of the first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, six years ago
The row led to the formation of a conservative breakaway Episcopal movement in the US - the Anglican Church in North America.
As head of the worldwide Anglican community, Dr Williams has been under pressure to recognise it.
The traditionalists have formed a range of new alliances, often with conservative churches in Africa.
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ANALYSIS
Robert Pigott, BBC religious affairs correspondent
Despite intense pressure to maintain a moratorium on ordaining gay bishops - the Episcopal Church's ruling convention voted in July to allow homosexual men or women to become bishops.
This clarification of the Church's policy makes it all the more likely that Mary Glasspool's election will be confirmed by its bishops and a committee representing the Church's lay and clergy members.
If it is confirmed, Canon Glasspool's election will set back attempts to preserve worldwide Anglicanism intact and makes it more probable that the American Church will be consigned to membership of the second of a two-tier Communion.
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Archbishop of Canterbury calls on Americans to block lesbian bishop's appointment
By Steve Doughty
The Daily Mail
http://tinyurl.com/y9lberf
December 6, 2009
THE Archbishop of Canterbury today called on American Anglicans to block the appointment of a lesbian bishop.
Dr Rowan Williams warned that the selection of a new homosexual bishop could push the divided Anglicans over the edge into full-blown schism.
The Archbishop spoke out after leaders of the Church of England's sister church in Los Angeles chose 55-year-old Reverend Mary Glasspool as an assistant bishop.
He said the choice raised 'serious questions' and warned it was a threat to the 'bonds' that tie 77 million Anglicans together.
Canon Glasspool, who lives with her long-term partner Becki Sander, acclaimed her election as a victory for gay rights.
'Any group of people who have been oppressed because of any one, isolated, aspect of their person yearns for justice and equal rights,' she said.
The historic worldwide network of Anglican churches that owe allegiance to Canterbury has been locked in angry dispute for six years since the liberal-dominated US Episcopal Church first appointed a gay bishop.
Following the consecration of the Right Reverend Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, Dr Williams and other Anglican leaders asked the Americans to hold back from further controversial appointments in the interest of unity.
The Archbishop said today: 'The election of Mary Glasspool by the Diocese of Los Angeles as suffragan bishop elect raises very serious questions not just for the Episcopal Church and its place in the Anglican Communion, but for the Communion as a whole.
'The process of selection however is only part complete. The election has to be confirmed, or could be rejected, by diocesan bishops and diocesan standing committees.'
Dr Williams added: 'That decision will have very important implications.
'The bishops of the Communion have collectively acknowledged that a period of gracious restraint in respect of actions which are contrary to the mind of the Communion is necessary if our bonds of mutual affection are to hold.'
Conservative Anglicans in the US and Britain have developed links with traditionalists in Africa and Latin America which could lead to a breakaway Anglican church which rejects homosexual practice and women priests.
While many evangelicals are attracted to the new Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, conservative Anglo-Catholics have been offered incentives to breakaway from Anglicanism and return to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church.
Pope Benedict has offered them their own bishops and parishes, and the right to appoint their own married priests while keeping traditional Church of England services.
The Reverend Rod Thomas of the evangelical Reform movement in the Church of England said of the Los Angeles appointment: 'I feel deeply ashamed that this is happening in the Anglican Church. I think a schism is absolutely inevitable.'
Canon Glasspool said: 'I am very excited about the future of the whole Episcopal Church, and I see the Diocese of Los Angeles leading the way into that future.'
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH ELECTION PROVIDES FURTHER CLARITY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 5, 2009
Contact: Robert Lundy
Communications Officer
American Anglican Council
770-595-6979
rlundy@americananglican.org
www.americananglican.org
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected a partnered lesbian as Bishop Suffragan today and demonstrated The Episcopal Church’s further departure from biblical Christianity.
“Unfortunately, this election provides further clarity to the rest of the Anglican Communion,” said Bishop David Anderson, president and CEO of the American Anglican Council. “Should the rest of The Episcopal Church consent to this election, there can be no more pretending that The Episcopal Church holds to Anglican Communion doctrine and 2,000 years of biblically based Christian teachings. Not only have they elected another non-celibate homosexual bishop, but they repeatedly defy the moratorium on same-sex blessings called for by the Windsor Report.”
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ANGLICAN MAINSTREAM responds to election of Canon Mary Glasspool as Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles
December 6th, 2009 www.anglican-mainstream.net
We are saddened but not surprised by this announcement from TEC. Unless their diocesan bishops and their standing committees decline to endorse the election, it will confirm that TEC have no intention of respecting the mind of the Communion and halting their current trajectory. That is why tens of thousands of Anglicans, in order to witness to the Communion's common basis of faith, and particularly biblical teaching on Christian marriage, have had to leave TEC and form the Anglican Church of North America. For any who doubted whether that action was justified TEC's latest announcement, made in full knowledge of its negative effect on the Communion's Covenant process, will confirm that TEC, rather than wanting to remain within the Communion's bonds of affection, is determined to walk away and follow its own path.
Dr Philip Giddings (Convenor)
Canon Chris Sugden (Secretary)
Anglican Mainstream (UK)
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IRD COMMENT ON ELECTION OF LESBIAN BISHOP
Jeff Walton, Director of the Anglican Action Program of the Washington-based Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) commented that Ms. Glasspool's election as suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is "unfortunate because she has unapologetically taken sexual expression outside of the God-ordained boundary of Holy Matrimony. In the view of the wider Anglican Communion, this practice makes her unqualified to serve in the role of a bishop.
"While Glasspool's election continues to draw attention, it is the logical conclusion of the Episcopal Church's liberalizing trajectory. After revoking a moratorium on the consecration of non-celibate homosexual bishops during its July General Convention, the church made clear that it was going to proceed on this route, despite protests from other Anglicans.
"The immediate effect of Glasspool's election will, ironically, serve to benefit the rival Anglican Church in North America (AC-NA) more than anything else. The growing traditionalist body has gradually gained sympathetic friends in the broader communion. These new friends have been pushed away by the actions of the Episcopal Church, more than anything else."
The IRD is an ecumenical alliance of U.S. Christians working to reform their churches' social witness, in accord with biblical and historic Christian teachings, and to contribute to the renewal of democratic society at home and abroad.
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BISHOP ROBINSON’S STATEMENT ON L.A. ELECTION
December 6, 2009
The people of the Diocese of Los Angeles have elected two extraordinarily gifted priests to serve them as Suffragan Bishops. They have chosen the two people who, in their minds, and with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, are best suited for this ministry, and one of them happens to be a lesbian. But let us be clear: it is Mary Glasspool's experience, skills and faith which will make her a good bishop, and are the reason for her election. Rightly so, the people of Los Angeles have not let current arguments over homosexuality or threats to "unity" impair their choosing the best persons for these ministries
This is the inclusive Church we declared at this summer's General Convention we would be, following God's call to us as best we can discern it, and we are now living into that calling. I am delighted over the elections of Diane Bruce and Mary Glasspool and, upon consent by the wider church, look forward to welcoming them both into the House of Bishops.
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More on LA Bishop-elect Mary Douglas Glasspool
December 6th, 2009
Episcopal Life Online
The 114th annual convention of the Diocese of Los Angeles made history for the second time in as many days on Dec. 5, electing an openly gay candidate, the Rev. Mary Douglas Glasspool, as bishop suffragan, pending the required consents from the majority of the church's other dioceses.
A day earlier, some 680 delegates attending "Faith and Our Future" at the Riverside Convention Center, elected the Rev. Canon Diane Jardine Bruce, 53, rector of St. Clements by-the-Sea Church in San Clemente, California, in the Los Angeles diocese, as their first woman bishop suffragan.
Glasspool, 55, canon to the bishops in the Baltimore-based Diocese of Maryland for the past eight years, was elected on the seventh ballot. She defeated the Rev. Irineo Martir Vasquez, a Los Angeles area priest, who received 87 votes in the clergy order and 177 lay votes.
Glasspool received 153 clergy votes and 203 votes from the laity. The ballot required 123 votes in the clergy order and 193 in the lay order. The results of all the ballots are available here. The Rev. Silvestre Romero, rector of St. Philip's Church in San Jose, California, withdrew after the fourth ballot.
After Bruce's Dec. 4 election, the field of candidates narrowed to five, with Glasspool leading Vasquez on the first two ballots. Another openly gay candidate, the Rev. John Kirkley, rector of St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco, withdrew after the third ballot.
Balloting for the second election, which had originally been scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, commenced instead on Dec. 4 shortly after Bruce was elected.
Prior to the second election, the Rev. Canon Julian Bull, headmaster of Campbell Hall and chair of the bishop's search committee, encouraged convention delegates via video presentation to elect a bishop suffragan from the remaining five candidates to complement a team ministry with Los Angeles diocesan Bishop Jon Bruno and Bruce.
"I'm very excited about the future of the whole Episcopal Church, and I see the Diocese of Los Angeles leading the way into that future," Glasspool said after the election. "But just for this moment, let me say again, thank you, and thanks be to our loving, surprising God.
"I look forward, in the coming months, to getting to know you all better, as together we build up the Body of Christ for the world," added Glasspool, who received a standing ovation by convention.
Glasspool initially greeted the gathering in Spanish and reached out to Vasquez and "to people of every ethnic group and category" as "we try to be God's kingdom on earth."
"This is my 56th Advent and I think I finally know the meaning of the word wait," Glasspool said, eliciting laughter from the gathering about the lengthy election process.
Glasspool is the second openly gay partnered priest to be elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church. The first was Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who was elected in 2003.
Reaction to Glasspool's election was swift. The Rev. Canon Kendall Harmon, canon theologian from the Diocese of South Carolina, said the election "represents an intransigent embrace of a pattern of life Christians throughout history and the world have rejected as against biblical teaching.
"It will add further to the Episcopal Church's incoherent witness and chaotic common life, and it will continue to do damage to the Anglican Communion and her relationship with our ecumenical partners."
Under the canons of the Episcopal Church (III.11.4(a)) that apply after all episcopal elections, a majority of bishops exercising jurisdiction and diocesan Standing Committees must consent to Glasspool's ordination within 120 days from the day after notice of her election is sent to them.
Bruno, responding to a question about whether Glasspool would received the required number of consents for her episcopacy to go forward, said: "If by chance people are going to withhold consents because of Mary's sexuality, it would be a violation of the canons of this church.
"At our last General Convention, we said we are nondiscriminatory. They just as well might have withheld their consents from me because I was a divorced man and in my case, it would have been more justified than someone withholding them from someone who has been approved through all levels of ministry and is a good and creative minister of the Gospel."
He added: "I would remind The Episcopal Church and the House of Bishops they need to be conscientious about respecting the canons of the church and the baptismal covenant to respect the dignity of every human being.
"To not consent in this country out of fear of the reaction elsewhere in the Anglican Communion is to capitulate to titular heads."
The Rev. Canon Dr. Charles K. Robertson, canon to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said: "This weekend witnesses the election of a new bishop diocesan in post-Katrina Louisiana and two bishops suffragan in Los Angeles. In each case, the voting representatives of the local diocese are making their decision trusting that God has called this person to be bishop. But this is only half the process, as bishops and Standing Committees throughout the Episcopal Church over the coming months will be asked through our consent process whether they confirm that God has indeed called this person to the office of bishop."
Glasspool's ordination and consecration is scheduled for May 15, 2010.
During her 28-year ordained ministry, Glasspool has served congregations in Maryland, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
While she was rector of St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Church in Boston (1992 to 2001), the small urban church's budget more than doubled from $44,000, and parish membership tripled from 50 to about 150. She also has served as program developer for the Massachusetts Bible Society.
A 2006 Harvard Divinity School Merrill Fellow, Glasspool said that in her current role she provides pastoral care to clergy and their families and makes officials visits on behalf of Maryland's bishops.
She is a 1976 magna cum laude graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and earned a master of divinity degree in 1981 from the Episcopal Divinity School, where she has returned to lecture in pastoral theology. She is also a certified field education supervisor, a Cursillo Spiritual Director and has designed and facilitated spiritual retreats for more than 20 years.
Ordained to the diaconate in 1981 and the priesthood in 1982, Glasspool has been active at local, provincial and national church levels. She has served as a three-time General Convention deputy, a Province III representative and as president of the diocesan standing committee.
The daughter of a priest, Glasspool was one of two openly gay candidates on the Los Angeles slate but maintained that her sexual orientation was "not an issue" in the election.
She was born on Staten Island and grew up in Goshen, New York, where her father served as rector of St. James' Church for 35 years. Her life partner of 19 years is Becki Sander, who holds degrees in theology and social work.
Bruno said that Glasspool has for years in effect fulfilled the responsibilities of a suffragan bishop in her role as canon to the bishops in the Baltimore-based Diocese of Maryland.
He said he is looking forward to working with Glasspool because of "her congeniality and willingness to work together to bring us to a place of abundance."
"She's not afraid of conflict and is a reconciler." He added that Glasspool and her partner are an example of loving service and ministry.
The Diocese of Maryland represents about 45,000 Episcopalians in 117 congregations and encompasses parts of Appalachia as well as Howard County, the fourth wealthiest county in the nation.
In written statements, Glasspool had said gifts she hoped to bring to the new ministry included: "a profound love of people; a willingness to learn new things; an appreciation of others' gifts and skills; the broad and deep experience of 28 years of ordained ministry; the "fresh" eyes of an 'Easterner'; and the energy and enthusiasm that seem to come from the new things that God is always doing."
Bruno had called for the elections at the diocese's 2008 convention, when announcing the 2010 retirements of Bishop Suffragan Chester Talton and Bishop Assistant Sergio Carranza, after 19 and seven years service, respectively, to the diocese.
Talton was elected bishop suffragan by the Diocese in 1990 and began ministry in 1991. Carranza, the retired Bishop of the Diocese of Mexico, was appointed bishop assistant by Bruno and began ministry in Los Angeles in 2003.
With 70,000 members in 148 congregations, the Diocese of Los Angeles includes all of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, and part of Riverside County.
The Diocese of Los Angeles is one of 110 dioceses that form the Episcopal Church, located in 16 nations and territories and part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
The other candidates were:
• the Rev. Zelda Kennedy, 62, senior associate for pastoral care and spiritual growth, All Saints Church, Pasadena, California (Diocese of Los Angeles);
• the Rev. John Kirkley, 42, rector of St. John the Evangelist, in San Francisco in the Diocese of California;
• the Rev. Silvestre Romero, 41, rector of St. Philip's Church in San Jose, in the Diocese of El Camino Real; and
• the Rev. Martir Vasquez, 45, vicar, St. George's Church in Hawthorne, California in the Diocese of Los Angeles.
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