Post by angli_fan on Sept 23, 2006 15:34:24 GMT -5
[from Episcopal News Service]
The Rev. Mark M. Beckwith was elected September 23 as the tenth bishop of Newark.
Beckwith, 54, was elected out of an initial field of six nominees on the third ballot. To be elected on that ballot, based on the number of votes cast, a nominee needed 80 votes in the clergy order and 160 in the lay order. Beckwith received 87 clergy votes and 166 lay votes. The results of the balloting, which were announced at 11:48 a.m., are available at www.dioceseofnewark.org/.
The election took place at the Robert Treat Hotel in downtown Newark, a short walk from Trinity & St. Philip's Cathedral where the electing convention celebrated Eucharist earlier in the day.
Beckwith will succeed Bishop John Palmer Croneberger, 67, who plans to retire after the new bishop is consecrated and installed on January 27, 2007. Croneberger became bishop coadjutor November 21, 1998 and succeeded Bishop John Shelby Spong in January 2000.
www.dfms.org/3577_78019_ENG_HTM.htm
The Rev. Mark M. Beckwith was elected September 23 as the tenth bishop of Newark.
Beckwith, 54, was elected out of an initial field of six nominees on the third ballot. To be elected on that ballot, based on the number of votes cast, a nominee needed 80 votes in the clergy order and 160 in the lay order. Beckwith received 87 clergy votes and 166 lay votes. The results of the balloting, which were announced at 11:48 a.m., are available at www.dioceseofnewark.org/.
The election took place at the Robert Treat Hotel in downtown Newark, a short walk from Trinity & St. Philip's Cathedral where the electing convention celebrated Eucharist earlier in the day.
Beckwith will succeed Bishop John Palmer Croneberger, 67, who plans to retire after the new bishop is consecrated and installed on January 27, 2007. Croneberger became bishop coadjutor November 21, 1998 and succeeded Bishop John Shelby Spong in January 2000.
www.dfms.org/3577_78019_ENG_HTM.htm