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Episcopal News Service. October 10, 1990 [90266M]
The Rev. William Winterrowd, 52, was elected ninth bishop of Colorado on the fourth ballot of a special diocesan convention in Denver on September 29. The bishop-elect, a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, is currently rector of the Church of St. James the Less in Scarsdale, New York. Winterrowd is also president of the Episcopal Family Network, and has been a national leader in the care of distressed clergy and their families. He succeeds the Rt. Rev. William Frey, who last year became the dean of a seminary in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, after 17 years as Colorado's diocesan bishop. Winterrowd's consecration is scheduled for January 19, 1991, pending the necessary consents.
The Rt. Rev. Robert Gibson, Jr., the retired 10th bishop of Virginia, died in Richmond of a heart attack on September 21, shortly after returning home from the House of Bishops meeting in Washington. Bishop Gibson, 83, formerly vice-president of the House of Bishops and chairman of Province III, had retired as bishop of Virginia in 1974. He was installed as Virginia's diocesan bishop in 1960, after serving as suffragan bishop and bishop coadjutor in the diocese. Gibson was a prominent figure in the ecumenical movement, chairing the Consultation on Church Union in the mid-1960s, and was an advocate of the full participation of women in the church. He had maintained an active diocesan and parish life following his retirement.
The Rev. Sanford Garner took up his position as interim provost of the Washington National Cathedral on October 1. The interim post is intended to facilitate the transition from Provost Charles Perry's 12-year tenure to the naming of a new dean. Perry recently became president and dean of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. Garner has 38 years of ministry experience, the last 17 as rector of Christ Church in Georgetown, D.C. He also served parishes in Tennessee and Wisconsin.
The Rev. Imelda Padasdao was ordained the first woman Philippine priest in the Anglican Communion on October 7 during a ceremony at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Honolulu, Hawaii. She will serve at St. Paul's in Honolulu, where she has been deacon for the past four years. She also holds a post with the state's Department of Hawaiian Homelands, and was elected deputy convener of the Philippine convocation at the recent Episcopal Asiamerica Ministry Consultation.
Stefanie Reponen recently assumed her post as the first executive director of the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. Reponen had formerly been the outreach director of a nationwide program for youth at risk. The American Friends, based in Alexandria, Virginia, provides financial support to the Anglican Church in Jerusalem and informs Americans about the church's 32 service institutions that minister in 27 parishes. It was established by Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning in 1988.