Episcopal News Service Thursday, October 19, 2006
Staffing set for transition in Presiding Bishop's Office
[ENS] Presiding Bishop-elect Katharine Jefferts Schori has designated transitional staffing for the Presiding Bishop's Office to begin November 1 with the start of her administration and the conclusion of Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold's nine-year term.
Griswold's closest senior staff assistants, the Rev. Canon Carlson Gerdau and Barbara L. Braver -- together with Patricia C. Mordecai, chief operating officer and vice president of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society -- announced earlier this year their plans to retire. In addition, fellow senior Management Team member Bishop Arthur B. Williams Jr., director of ethnic congregational ministry, will retire January 12, as will Griswold's executive secretary, Sharon Tolley, effective November 1.
Gerdau, who has served since 1998 as Canon to the Primate and Presiding Bishop, has accepted Jefferts Schori's invitation to stay on "for a few months' time to assist with transitional matters," she said. Gerdau also served as canon to the ordinary in the Diocese of Chicago, where Griswold was diocesan bishop from 1985 to 1997. A search for Gerdau's successor will be announced at a future time, Jefferts Schori said.
Mordecai, DFMS chief operating officer for the past eight years, expects to retire to Maine December 31, after more than 30 years of service in church administration. Her career also included professional assignments in the dioceses of Massachusetts and Washington. Mordecai's retirement date will be coordinated with the task of providing her successor a complete orientation to all aspects of DFMS operations, including its $150 million triennial budget, and the 200-plus-member staff at the Church Center.
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