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Episcopal News Service. October 22, 1993 [93183K]
The Rev. J. Clark Grew II, was elected bishop of Ohio on Saturday, October 9, at Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland at a special diocesan convention. Grew, 53, was elected on the fifth ballot. He will succeed Bishop James R. Moodey, who will retire on November 1, 1993. Grew was an educator and rector in Massachusetts before becoming rector at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest, Illinois. Grew currently serves as president of Diocese of Chicago's standing committee and is on the board of trustees of the Episcopal Charities Foundation.
The Rt. Rev. Claude E. Payne, became bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Texas in Houston on October 9. Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning was joined by two former presiding bishops, the Most Rev. John Allin and the Most Rev. John Hines, as co-consecrators along with Bishop Maurice M. Benitez of Texas and the Bishop Scott Field Bailey, former suffragan bishop of Texas and retired bishop of West Texas. Among the 2,000 in attendance were former President and Mrs. George Bush.
The Rt. Rev. Robert Garshong Allotey Okine was elected Archbishop of West Africa, a province of the Anglican Communion, on October 8. Okine was previously the bishop of the Diocese of Koforidua in the province of West Africa. He succeeds Archbishop George Browne of Liberia who died last spring following a long illness.