Bishop Donovan Will Serve Interim in Diocese of New Jersey
Episcopal News Service. June 30, 1999 [99-097]
(ENS) The Standing Committee of the Diocese of New Jersey announced May 26 that it had "unanimously and enthusiastically" called Bishop Herbert A. Donovan Jr. to serve as assisting bishop in the diocese, effective June 1. After his 1993 retirement as bishop of Arkansas, he was vicar of Trinity Church in Manhattan and then interim bishop of Chicago. He is currently serving as coordinator of the College of Bishops, which meets annually at the General Theological Seminary in New York. He was secretary of the House of Bishops for 12 years.
"It is the expectation of the Standing Committee that in January we will have an assisting bishop in place who will be with us until the election of a new diocesan bishop," said the letter from the Rev. George Willis, Jr., president of the committee. Under an agreement with Bishop Joe Morris Doss, who resigned as bishop of New Jersey on March 12, the diocese will not elect until that resignation takes effect in the fall of 2001.