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29-April-1997 
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           Episcopal Committee Announces Slate of Four  
                 Candidates For Presiding Bishop 
 
                  by the Episcopal News Service 
 
NEW YORK CITY--The Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of a 
Presiding Bishop announced a slate of four nominees recently for election 
as the next presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. 
 
     The four bishops nominated are Frank Griswold III of Chicago; Robert 
Rowley Jr. of Northwestern Pennsylvania; Richard Shimpfky of El Camino 
Real, California; and Don Wimberly of Lexington, Ky.  The elected bishop 
will serve a nine-year term. 
 
     The election will take place in the 300-member House of Bishops of the 
Episcopal Church July 21 during the denomination's General Convention in 
Philadelphia and must be confirmed by the church's House of Deputies (four 
clergy and four laypersons from each of the denomination's 113 dioceses). 

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