September 26, 1997

Alaska Consecrates Youngest Bishop in the Episcopal Church

97-1961

Episcopal News Service

[Alaska Consecrates Mark M...]
Alaska Consecrates Mark MacDonald as its Seventh Bishop. The Rev. Mark MacDonald was consecrated September 13 as the seventh bishop of Alaska. He kneels before Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning, chief consecrator, joined by (from the left) Bishops Robert Ladehoff (Oregon), Andrew Fairfield (North Dakota), Steve Plummer (Navajoland), chaplain Carol Gallagher, William Wantland (Eau Claire) Robert Anderson (Los Angeles), Sanford Hampton (Olympia) and George Harris (fifth bishop of Alaska). (Episcopal News Service photo by James Solheim)