On the Feast of the Epiphany, Friday January 6th at 7:30pm, the Rev. Kristofer Lindh-Payne (2009 MDiv) and the Rev. Kathryn Wajda (2004 DMIN Cong Dev) will be instituted as Co-Rectors of Epiphany Episcopal Church in Timonium, MD.

The Very Rev. Joyce Beaulieu ('06) has been elected to the board of directors of National Episcopal Health Ministries and was just installed as Dean of the Rockford Deanery of the Diocese of Chicago.  She is the Rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Belvidere.

 

  The Rt. Rev. C. Christopher Epting ('72) was named Assistant Bishop of Chicago on Saturday, Nov. 19 at the 174th Convention of the Diocese, which was held in Lombard. Bishop Jeff Lee told those assembed, "With Bishop Scantlebury's retirement it was clear that one bishop was really not enough at the least to keep an adequate schedule of visits to congregations and so I began to think and pray about how that need might be met. 

I had several conversations with bishops around the country who might have some interest in helping us out, but I am delighted that the bishop I most wanted to talk to about it was willing to talk with me too, and that with the approval of the Standing Committee he has accepted my invitation to come to Chicago on a part time basis as assisting bishop, beginning in January."

Bishop Epting is the retired Bishop of Iowa and served for eight years as the Ecumenical Officer of the Episcopal Church.

 

 

  

The Rev. Canon Andrew M.L. Dietsche ('87) was elected Bishop Coadjutor of New York on Saturday, Nov. 19, pending the required consents from a majority of bishops with jurisdiction and standing committees of the Episcopal Church.

Dietsche, 57, who currently serves as the diocese's canon for pastoral care, was elected on the third ballot out of a field of seven nominees. He received 131 votes of 233 cast in the lay order and 176 of 262 cast in the clergy order. An election on that ballot required 122 in the lay order and 132 in the clergy order.

The election was held during a special convention at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Pending a successful consent process, Dietsche will succeed the Diocesan Bishop and former Seabury Dean Mark S. Sisk, who will retire on or before his 72nd birthday in August 2014.  Canon Dietsche served as Curate and Assistant Rector of Christ Church Winnetka from 1987 to 1990.

 

We have received word that the Rt. Rev. Mary Ann Croisant ('97), a bishop in the Free Catholic Church, died on Oct. 8, 2011 in Ashville, NC.   She had left the Episcopal Church several years after her graduation from Seabury Western and turned to the Independent Catholic Church movement, and was ordained a deacon and then a priest.  She became a bishop in 2009.  Our sympathies to her daughter Micki and to her Ecumenical Catholic Church family in Chicago.