Three Dioceses Choose Coadjutors
Episcopal News Service. October 3, 1985 [85199]
NEW YORK (DPS, Oct. 3) -- Three dioceses in the Episcopal Church -- Pennsylvania, Oregon and West Texas -- have chosen bishops coadjutor in recent elections. A fourth, the Virgin Islands, failed to reach consensus and will try again later in the year.
The Very Rev. Allen L. Bartlett, Jr., dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, Ky., was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania by the reconvened 201st diocesan convention held the last weekend in September.
Before the convention's choice is effective, it must be approved by a majority of the bishops and standing committees of all dioceses in the Episcopal Church. Then the coadjutor-elect becomes next in line to succeed the present diocesan bishop, the Rt. Rev. Lyman C. Ogilby. Ogilby has announced his intention to retire "sometime in 1987." He became diocesan bishop in 1974.
Bartlett, dean of Christ Church Cathedral since 1970, was born in Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 22, 1929. He was graduated from the University of the South and Virginia Theological Seminary and later received the Doctor of Ministry degree from Virginia Theological Seminary and the Doctor of Divinity degree from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in (Lexington) Kentucky. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1958 and to the priesthood in 1959.
Prior to coming to Louisville, he was vicar of St. James Church, Alexander City, Ala., and rector of Zion Church, Charles Town, W.V. He is a member of the board for the American Committee for KEEP (Japan). He has been a trustee of the University of the South and Virginia Theological Seminary, a deputy to seven General Conventions, chairman of the West Virginia Board of Examining Chaplains, the Pastoral Counseling and Consultation Centers of Greater Washington (D.C.), the General Convention Worship Advisory Committee and the Board of St. Francis High School, Louisville; member and president of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Kentucky; member of the Interprovincial Task Force on World Hunger, the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, and the Louisville-Jefferson County Human Relations Commission.
The Diocese of Pennsylvania covers the five-county area of Philadelphia and its environs and is one of five Episcopal dioceses in the state.
The same weekend, the Diocese of West Texas elected the Rev. John H. MacNaughton, rector of Christ Church, San Antonio, to succeed Bishop Scott Field Bailey.
MacNaughton, 56, is well known throughout the Church as a expert in stewardship. He is the author of the book More Blessed to Give and chaired the stewardship commission that steered the 1982 General Convention resolution on tithing through both Houses. He is a native of Minnesota, a graduate of the University of Minnesota and served most of his ministry there after completing his theological studies at Bexley Hall. He was ordained priest in 1955 and moved to his present post in 1975.
Bailey, 70, has been a bishop for 21 years. He served as suffragan of Texas from 1964 until 1976 and as coadjutor of West Texas for a year. He has been executive officer of General Convention and has served as secretary of the House of Bishops since 1967. Bailey has not set the date for his retirement. MacNaughton is expected to be consecrated during the diocesan council, Feb. 6-8.
In late August, the Diocese of Oregon elected the Rev. Robert Louis Ladehoff, rector of St. John's, Fayetteville, N.C. as bishop coadjutor. He will succeed Bishop Matthew P. Bigliardi, 60, when the latter retires.
Ladehoff, 53, is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate of Duke University and General Seminary and earned a doctoral degree in ministry from Virginia in 1980. He has served most of his ministry in North Carolina, where he has been on the standing committee, including a term as president, and the executive council and been a deputy to General Convention from the Diocese of East Carolina. He will be consecrated Nov. 30.
Bigliardi, 65, has been Bishop of Oregon since 1974. He has served on the Church Deployment Board and the House of Bishops Pastoral Development Committee and the governing board of the National Council of Churches.