DALLAS: Bishop suffragan candidates announced
Episcopal News Service. March 11, 2008 [031108-06]
Mary Frances Schjonberg
Six priests have been named as candidates to become bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.
The candidates include five from the diocese, two of whom are in diocesan leadership roles.
The slate includes:
- the Rev. Leander S. Harding, 58, associate professor of pastoral theology and head of chapel, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania;
- the Rev. Canon David W. Holland, 62, rector, the Episcopal Church of the Annunciation, Lewisville, Texas;
- the Rev. Raymond E. Jennison Jr., 60, priest-in-charge, St David's Episcopal Church, Garland, Texas;
- the Rev. Canon Paul E. Lambert, 57, canon to the ordinary for the Diocese of Dallas;
- the Rev Canon Neal O. Michell, 54, canon missioner for strategic development for the Diocese of Dallas; and
- the Rev. Ally Perry, vicar, 57, St. John the Apostle, Pottsboro, Texas.
At the diocese's last convention this past November, Dallas Bishop James Stanton called for the election. The bishop suffragan will work with an emphasis in clergy recruitment, development and deployment, and focus on congregational development especially in the rural areas of the diocese, according to the report from the election committee.
Stanton is the only bishop in the diocese. He had been assisted by Retired Florida Bishop Stephen Jecko prior to his death June 7, 2007.
More information about the candidates, their answers to the questions posed by the committee and details about the process is available here.
The election is slated for March 29 at the Cathedral Church of St. Matthew in Dallas.