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Episcopal News Service. September 17, 1991 [91183Z]
Bishop Robert Terwilliger, who retired as suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts in 1986, died of a stroke in June at a nursing home in Hurst, Texas. He was 73. Terwilliger helped establish the traditionalist Catholic and Evangelical Mission and was a founder of the Trinity Institute clergy conferences, which are held in New York City. He authored a number of books, including Christian Believing and To Be a Priest.
The Rev. David B. Joslin, 55, was elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Central New York at the diocese's annual convention on June 8. He will succeed the Rt. Rev. O'Kelley Whitaker when Bishop Whitaker retires at the beginning of 1992. Joslin, currently the rector of St. Stephen's Church in Edina, Minnesota, received the required majority of both lay delegates' and clergy votes on the third ballot. His consecration will occur in early November at St. Paul's Cathedral, Syracuse. The Diocese of Central New York comprises an 1,800-square-mile area and has 40,000 members in its 106 parishes.
The Rev. Sandra A. Wilson, rector of St. Thomas Church, Denver, and a member of the Episcopal Church Executive Council, was one of 45 Americans recently selected for a Kellogg National Fellowship Program award. Supported by the Battle Creek, Michigan-based W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the fellowship program seeks to expand the skills and insights of capable leaders into areas outside their chosen disciplines so they can deal more creatively and effectively with contemporary society's complex problems. Each fellow receives a three-year grant of $35,000 to fund his or her own self-designed plan of study. In her own ministry, Wilson helps children and adults identify and use their gifts and talents. She was the fourth black woman priest ordained in the Episcopal Church in the United States, and the first ordained in the Diocese of New York.