Episcopal News Service November 11, 2006
Thomas E. Breidenthal elected as ninth bishop of Southern Ohio
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[ENS] The Rev. Thomas E. Breidenthal was elected November 11 as the 9th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio (http://www.episcopal-dso.org).
Breidenthal, 55, dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel at Princeton University in New Jersey, was elected out of a field of seven nominees on the third ballot. Breidenthal was elected with 151 lay votes and 86 clergy votes. An election on that ballot required 137 votes out of a total of 272 cast in the lay order and 77 of 152 in the clergy order.
The election took place at the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts on the campus of Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, during the diocese's 132nd annual convention.
Breidenthal will succeed Bishop Herbert Thompson Jr., 72, who retired at the end of 2005, and died unexpectedly August 16 while traveling in Italy. Bishop Suffragan Kenneth Price Jr., 63, also a nominee, has been serving as bishop in Southern Ohio. The last diocesan bishop election in Southern Ohio was in 1988.
The consecration is scheduled for April 28, 2007, in Columbus. Price will remain as the ecclesiastical authority in the diocese until the consecration.
Complete ballot results are available at http://www.episcopal-dso.org.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79613_ENG_HTM.htm
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