Conventions Choose Coadjutor, Suffragan
Episcopal News Service. October 20, 1977 [77343]
NEW YORK, N. Y. -- Meeting simultaneously in mid-October, Diocesan Conventions in Minnesota and Atlanta chose two men to join the ranks of Episcopal Church prelates.
Minnesota chose the Very Rev. Robert Marshall Anderson, Dean of Salt Lake City, as bishop coadjutor to succeed the Rt. Rev. Philip McNairy who has been bishop of the diocese since 1971. In Atlanta, that diocese tapped the Rev. Canon C. Judson Child, canon pastor of St. Philemon's Cathedral there for the last ten years as suffragan. Atlanta has been without a suffragan bishop since the Rt. Rev. Milton L. Wood joined the Episcopal Church Center staff in New York in 1974.
Dean Anderson, 43, is a graduate of Colgate University and Berkely Divinity School and was ordained priest in 1962. He served parishes in Connecticut for ten years until he was called to Salt Lake City in 1972. A fellow of the College of Preachers, he has held a variety of diocesan church positions in both Connecticut and Utah and was a deputy to the Minnesota General Convention.
Canon Child, 54, is a native of New Jersey and holds both his BA and BD degrees from the University of the South. He served parishes in the Diocese of Newark for 20 years after being ordained priest in 1948. He was called to the Cathedral in Atlanta 10 years ago as canon pastor.