Hucles Consecrated in Long Island
Episcopal News Service. July 9, 1981 [81204]
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- Fanfare and celebration conquered showers and steamy humidity here as 1,000 Long Island Episcopalians gathered for the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Henry B. Hucles as suffragan bishop of the diocese June 20.
Presiding Bishop John M. Allin was the chief consecrator at the ceremony held in the Cathedral of the Incarnation here. The church was filled to capacity and the overflow was accommodated by closed circuit television in a tent on the close.
Hucles was archdeacon of Brooklyn in the diocese when he was elected to the episcopate March 14.
Eight other episcopal bishops -- including diocesan Bishop Robert C. Witcher -- joined Allin in the consecration. Representatives of the Roman Catholic and Ukranian Orthodox Church of America episcopate were present at the service.
Hucles has served the diocese as archdeacon of Brooklyn since 1976. He has also served as rector of St. George's Church, Brooklyn, and as chaplain of the Brooklyn House of Detention. He holds degrees from Virginia Union University, Bishop Payne Divinity School and Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1947.
The diocese comprises nearly 95,000 members in 156 parishes spread over the four counties of Long Island. It ranges from the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens to the agricultural and resort communities far out near the eastern tip of the island.