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>Episcopal News Service
>December 12, 2009

Andrew Waldo elected as Upper South Carolina's next bishop

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. W. Andrew Waldo was elected Dec. 12
to be the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South
Carolina, pending the required consents from the majority of the
church's other dioceses.

Waldo, 56, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Excelsior, Minnesota
(Diocese of Minnesota), was chosen on the third ballot out of a field
of seven candidates. He received 129 votes of 234 cast in the lay
order and 64 of 116 cast in the clergy order. An election on the third
ballot required 118 in the lay order and 59 in the clergy order.

The election was held at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia where
one of the candidates, the Very Rev. Dr. Philip C. Linder, is dean.

Waldo was elected to succeed Bishop Dorsey Henderson, who is retiring
on Dec. 31 after serving the diocese since 1995. Waldo's consecration
is set for May 22, 2010.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_117749_ENG_HTM.htm