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99-097

Bishop Donovan will serve interim in Diocese of New Jersey

(ENS) The Standing Committee of the Diocese of New Jersey 
announced May 26 that it had "unanimously and enthusiastically" 
called Bishop Herbert A. Donovan Jr. to serve as assisting bishop 
in the diocese, effective June 1. After his 1993 retirement as 
bishop of Arkansas, he was vicar of Trinity Church in Manhattan 
and then interim bishop of Chicago. He is currently serving as 
coordinator of the College of Bishops, which meets annually at 
the General Theological Seminary in New York. He was secretary of 
the House of Bishops for 12 years.

"It is the expectation of the Standing Committee that in 
January we will have an assisting bishop in place who will be 
with us until the election of a new diocesan bishop," said the 
letter from the Rev. George Willis, Jr., president of the 
committee. Under an agreement with Bishop Joe Morris Doss, who 
resigned as bishop of New Jersey on March 12, the diocese will 
not elect until that resignation takes effect in the fall of 
2001.