Bishop Myers Elected Bishop of California
Diocesan Press Service. October 7, 1966 [47-4]
The Rt. Rev. C. Kilmer Myers, Suffragan Bishop of Michigan, has accepted the post of Bishop of California to which he was elected Sept. 14.
Bishop Myers has been Suffragan Bishop of Michigan since Jan. 1, 1965. An old and close friend of Bishop Pike, he was elected on the ninth ballot Sept. 14 when he won the majority of both clerical and lay votes at the diocesan convention held in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. He was one of eight nominees.
A native of Shuylerville, N. Y., Bishop Myers has had wide experience in urban ministries. While teaching and lecturing in pastoral theology at General Theological Seminary in New York from 1946 to 1952 he also worked with a team ministry at Grace Church, Jersey City, N.J.
Following his work in Jersey City, he moved to the Trinity Church missions in New York and for 11 years worked in areas such as the Lower East Side. He then became director of the Urban Training Center for Christian Mission in Chicago, and provided much of the foundation of this training program for clergy, seminarians and laymen interested in "inner city" mission. The Center is sponsored by 12 major American churches including the Episcopal Church.
Bishop Myers and his wife, the former Katie Lea Stuart, have three adopted children, The two youngest, Jonathan Matthew Ki, 14, and Laura Mercy, 8, were Korean orphans. Albert, 26, a Negro, is with the Peace Corps in Malawi.