[ENS] Western Kansas diocese elects Michael Pierce Milliken as bishop

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>Episcopal News Service
>August 21, 2010

Western Kansas diocese elects Michael Pierce Milliken as bishop

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Michael Pierce Milliken was elected
Aug. 21 as the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western
Kansas, pending the required consents from a majority of bishops with
jurisdiction and standing committees of the Episcopal Church.

Milliken, 63, rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Hutchinson, Kansas,
since 1998, was elected on the second ballot from a field of three
nominees during a special electing convention at St. Michael's Church
in Hays, Kansas. He received 33 votes in the lay order and 22 in the
clergy order. A simple majority of votes in each order was needed to
elect.

Pending a successful consent process, Milliken also will continue as
Grace's rector while serving as diocesan bishop, according to the Rev.
Laird McGregor, vicar of St. Anne's Church in McPherson and a member
of the diocesan Standing Committee.

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