PITTSBURGH: Diocese begins search for next bishop
Episcopal News Service. October 18, 2010 [101810-04]
ENS staff
The process to elect the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has begun.
Delegates to the diocese's annual convention Oct 15-16 at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh agreed to initiate a search aimed at choosing a bishop during a special election convention on April 21, 2012.
The gathering will come nearly three and a half years after a majority of the delegates to the diocese's 143rd annual convention on Oct. 4, 2008, approved a resolution by which the diocese purported to leave the Episcopal Church.
Two weeks before that decision, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, with the agreement of the House of Bishops, deposed or removed then-Pittsburgh bishop Robert Duncan from ordained ministry. The decision was based on Duncan's "actions and statements to facilitate the departure of congregations out of the Episcopal Church," the Rev. Dr. Charles Robertson, canon to the presiding bishop, told ENS at the time.
Diocese of Southern Ohio Bishop Suffragan Kenneth Price was elected as provisional bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Oct. 17, 2009. He has told the diocese that he intends to end his service there in the summer or fall of 2012.
The resolution explaining Pittsburgh's search plans is here. The first step, according to a diocesan press release, will be to form nomination and transition committees.