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>Episcopal News Service
>May 22, 2010

Utah diocese elects Scott B. Hayashi as bishop

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Canon Scott Byron Hayashi was
elected May 22 as 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah,
pending required consents from a majority of bishops with jurisdiction
and standing committees of the Episcopal Church.

Hayashi, 56, canon to the ordinary in the Diocese of Chicago since
2005, was elected on the second ballot out of a field of three
nominees. A fourth nominee, the Rev. Canon Mary Sulerud, withdrew
after the first ballot.

Hayashi received 73 of 128 votes cast in the lay order and 20 of 38
cast in the clergy order at a special electing convention at St.
Mark's Cathedral in Salt Lake City. An election on that ballot
required 65 in the lay order and 20 in the clergy order.

Pending a successful consent process Hayashi would succeed the Rt.
Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish, 70, who was elected in 1996 and a year ago
announced her decision to retire.

During nearly 25 years of ordained ministry Hayashi has served inner
city, suburban and rural congregations in California, Utah and
Washington.

After his 1984 ordination to the diaconate (June 2) and priesthood
(Oct. 1) he served for five years as vicar to two small rural mission
congregations -- St. John the Baptist Episcopal Mission in Ephrata,
and St. Dunstan's Episcopal Mission in Grand Coulee -- in the
Episcopal Diocese of Spokane, Washington.

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