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Episcopal News Service. March 20, 1992 [92075K]
Muru Walters, Waiohau Ben Te Haara, and William Brown Turei were consecrated as Anglican bishops during a ceremony in Ohinemutu, New Zealand, on March 7. The primate and archbishop of New Zealand, the Most Rev. Brian Davis, and the bishop of the Aotearoa Maoris, the Rt. Rev. Whakahuihui Vercoe, officiated at the consecration of the three Maori bishops, whose jurisdictions encompass three of the four regions of the North Island. Nearly 2,000 people attended the ceremony.
The Rt. Rev. Arthur E. Walmsley, bishop of Connecticut since 1981, announced that he will retire in 1993, soon after his 65th birthday in May of that year. "The issues we confront in the '90s call for new directions," Walmsley said in a March letter to clergy and lay leaders of his diocese. The election for a new diocesan bishop is expected to be held in the spring of 1993.
The Rev. Canon Gethin B. Hughes was elected bishop of San Diego on the third ballot on February 15. He will succeed the Rt. Rev. C. Brinkley Morton, who retired for health reasons. Hughes, 49, has been rector of All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, California, since 1980. He previously worked as a social worker and teacher in the Los Angeles area, and is a graduate of Seabury-Western seminary. The consecration is scheduled for June.
The Rt. Rev. Otis Charles will retire as dean and president of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the end of the 1992-93 academic year. In making his announcement, Charles said that during the transition period, he "will be giving special attention to the appointment of new faculty as well as the capital funds development program." Charles has served as the school's dean and president for the past six and a half years, after serving 15 years as bishop of the Diocese of Utah.
The Rt. Rev. Daniel Lee Swenson, bishop of Vermont, will retire on February 2, 1993, his 65th birthday. Swenson was installed as diocesan bishop in January 1987.