People
Episcopal News Service. March 27, 1996 [96-1427R]
The Rt. Rev. Matthew Paul Bigliardi, retired bishop of Oregon, died of a heart attack on February 26, 1996. He attended the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and served as priest at Mercer Island, Washington, before becoming bishop of Oregon in 1974. He retired in 1985. From 1988 until 1991, and again from 1992 to 1993, Bigliardi served as bishop of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe.
The Rev. Richard D. McCall, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, the Rev. Leigh Axton Williams, at the General Theological Seminary, and the Rev. Donald D. Binder, at Southern Methodist University, are the 1996-97 Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF) fellowship recipients. ECF fellowships seek to ensure top-quality faculty for Episcopal seminaries by funding the doctoral education of lay and ordained individuals who show strong promise for teaching.
Bishop Bob Jones of Wyoming and Bishop Steven Charleston of Alaska are headed for posts at two academic institutions with ties to the Episcopal Church. Jones will become the new dean of St. George's College in Jerusalem some time this summer, and Charleston began April 1 as chaplain at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, his alma mater. St. George's is a center for continuing education for the Anglican Communion, offering facilities for study and research in the Holy Land. St. George's Cathedral on the close is the spiritual center for Anglicans in the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East. Charleston, who resigned as bishop last fall for family reasons, will be responsible for spiritual life and serve as an adviser to student groups at the college, founded in 1823.