wfn.org | [ENS] Nomination form for Presiding Bishop election available

["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@mail.epicom.org>]

Monday, February 28, 2005

Nomination form for Presiding Bishop election available

ENS 022805-2

[ENS] The Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding
Bishop has held its third meeting February 20-22 at Fuller Theological
Seminary in Pasadena, California. The committee members are continuing a
process that will result in the nomination to the 2006 General
Convention of
at least three bishops for election to the office of Presiding Bishop,
Primate and Chief Pastor of the Episcopal Church. At that Convention the
House of Bishops will elect a new Presiding Bishop, that choice being
subject to confirmation by the House of Deputies.

Basing its work on the document distributed and published on April 2004
titled "A Call for Discernment" the committee continued work on the
selection and interview process and now issues an invitation for
nominations, which will be received from March 1 to April 15, 2005. A
short
initial set of questions will be forwarded to the prospective nominees
to be
returned by May 15, 2005.

The nomination form can be found online at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/gc/ccab and will be made available to
media,
and mailed to all Bishops, Standing Committees and the Chairs of General
Convention Deputations. "A Call for Discernment" is appended to the
nomination form.

The next meeting of the full committee will be in June 2005 in Chicago.

For further information, contact either of the co-chairs: Bishop Peter
James
Lee of Virginia, pjlee@thediocese.net, or Diane Pollard,
dbpsd4u@aol.com.

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