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Episcopal News Service. May 8, 1998 [98-2160M]
The Rev. James Lemler, rector of Trinity Church, Indianapolis, has been elected dean of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. Lemler succeeds Mark Sisk, who was consecrated bishop coadjutor of New York on April 25. He has served as rector of Trinity Church since 1981. He is the founder and director of the Trustee Leadership Development program and serves as vice-chair of the Standing Commission on the Church in Metropolitan Areas. The Very Rev. Jean Parker Vail will serve as interim dean and president from April 15 until Lemler assumes his new post in September.
The Rev. Caroline Crook has been appointed Bishop of Stockholm by the Swedish government. Krook received the majority of votes in the election for the bishop of the Stockholm diocese in February. Her consecration will take place in Uppsala Cathedral May 31. She is the second woman, after Bishop Christina Odenberg of Lund, to become a bishop in the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden. She succeeds retiring Bishop Henrik Svenungsson.
Nan Marvel, who is currently serving as executive director of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, will leave that position to become national representative and ambassador for the Fund. In her new role, Marvel will visit dioceses, informing bishops and diocesan leaders of program activities and identifying potential donors to the Fund. Succeeding Marvel as interim executive director will be Ann Vest of the diocese of Southern Virginia, former chair of the Fund's board. A specific date for the changeover has not been set.
The Rt. Rev. Girault McArthur Jones, seventh bishop of Louisiana, died of liver cancer on April 29. He was 93. Among his accomplishments was the establishment of the John Long Jackson Fund which has, for nearly 50 years, offered low interest loans to mission congregations for construction and renovation projects. He also established the diocesan newspaper, Churchwork, and was its editor for his entire 20-year episcopate. He ordained 89 men into the ministry and his episcopacy saw the chartering of many successful church schools across the state. Bishop James Brown, recently retired tenth bishop of Louisiana, estimated that nearly one-third of the congregations in the state of Louisiana were founded during Jones' episcopate.
Virginia "Ginny" Doctor recently succeeded Dr. Owanah Anderson as interim staff officer for Native American Ministries. Doctor has been an appointed missionary serving on the Yukon River evangelism team and a member of Executive Council since 1994. Anderson retired after 14 years in the position. She plans to complete a biography of Joseph Brant, an Iroquois Confederacy leader who remained loyal to the English church and crown in the American Revolutionary War.