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Episcopal News Service. July 30, 1992 [92165T]
The Rt. Rev. Richard Holloway, 58, the new primate of the Scottish Episcopal Church, was unanimously elected at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Aberdeen on June 19. A former rector at the Church of the Advent in Boston, Massachusetts, and bishop of Edinburgh since 1986, Holloway succeeds the Rt. Rev. George Henderson, who recently retired. Holloway has been a directing influence within the Affirming Catholicism group and is a strong supporter of the ordination of women priests, which he reportedly expects to happen in the Scottish church "within the next two years."
Ann B. Garvin of Topeka, Kansas, was installed as president of Church Women United (CWU) on June 29 at the CWU Common Council meeting in Los Angeles, and Van Lynch of Trimble, Tennessee, was installed as CWU first vice president. Garvin, a former public high school math teacher, is a member of the St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church in Topeka, and owns a consulting company. She succeeds Patricia Rumer as president. Van Lynch, a Presbyterian, is a Native American of the Choctaw tribe. CWU is a national organization of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox women.
The Rt. Rev. Craig Barry Anderson bishop of South Dakota since 1984, was elected the eleventh dean and president of the General Theological Seminary (GTS), the Episcopal Church's oldest seminary. Anderson, 50, was chosen at a special meeting of the New York-based seminary's board of trustees on July 14. In hailing Anderson's election, the Rev. C. Hugh Hildesley, chair of the GTS Search Committee, said, "Craig Anderson embodies the qualities we were looking for in a new dean: leadership in theology and worship, a vision for the seminary, skills in fundraising and recruitment, and experience in management and administration -- with a proven ability and enthusiasm to communicate all of the above." Anderson received his master of divinity degree from the University of the South's School of Theology in 1975, and was later a professor of pastoral theology there. He also received a Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1986. He will succeed the Very Rev. James C. Fenhagen, whose resignation as GTS dean and president becomes effective August 31.
The Rev. Dr. Erica Brown Wood assumed the post of president and warden of the College of Preachers on June 18, after serving as interim president of the Washington, D.C.-based institution since May 1991. The college, a ministry of the Washington National Cathedral, is an interdenominational center of continuing education for those called to the ministry of preaching. Prior to coming to the college, Wood was associate rector of Trinity Memorial Church in Binghamton, New York. She was ordained to the priesthood in 1988, after earning her master of divinity degree from Colgate Rochester Divinity School. Wood also holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in economics and sociology from Syracuse University.
The Rev. Martin G. Townsend was elected the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Easton on the third ballot of a special diocesan convention, July 11. Townsend, 48, is currently rector of Christ Church, Blacksburg, Virginia. He will serve as bishop coadjutor until the Rt. Rev. Elliott L. Sorge, the incumbent bishop, retires early next year. Born in Cambridge, England, Townsend came to the United States at the age of 14. He took his master of divinity degree at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, where he is now studying for a doctorate.
Margaret M. Jacoby former editor of the diocesan newspaper in the Diocese of Dallas, died at age 89 on July 15. Jacoby and her husband, Henry Jacoby, were charter members of a diocesan mission that grew into St. Michael and All Angels Church in Dallas, a parish now numbering over 5,000 members. She served the Diocese of Dallas for 33 years, most recently as archivist and historiographer.