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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal News Service
>September 12, 2009

Georgia diocese elects Scott Benhase as bishop

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Scott A. Benhase was elected September 12
as tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. 

Benhase, 52, rector of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.
(Diocese of Washington), was elected on the second ballot out of a field of
six nominees. He received 76 votes of 146 cast in the lay order and 58 of
103 cast in the clergy order. An election on that ballot required 74 in the
lay order and 53 in the clergy order.

The election took place during the diocese's 188th annual convention at the
Dubose Porter Center, a business and training center in Dublin, Georgia.

Under the canons of the Episcopal Church (III.11.4), a majority of bishops
exercising jurisdiction and diocesan Standing Committees must consent to
Benhase's ordination as bishop within 120 days of receiving notice of the
election.

Providing he receives the required consents, Benhase will succeed Georgia's
ninth bishop, Henry I. Louttit, who has served the diocese since January
1995. The ordination and consecration is set for January 23, 2010 at the
Savannah International Trade and Convention Center.

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