Church of the Word
SEVEN NOMINEES FOR BISHOP

Two additional Nominees by Petition to stand for election as the 8th Bishop of California
Written by Sean McConnell
Wednesday, 15 March 2006

[March 15, 2006] The Standing Committee of the Diocese of California today announced that the Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, Officer for Congregational Development, Diocese of California, and the Rev. Donald Schell, co-rector, St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco, have been nominated by petition to stand for election for bishop on May 6, 2006. The reverends Barlowe and Schell were nominated in a petition process established by the diocesan Standing Committee, and their nominations bring the total slate of nominees to seven (see below for the full list of nominees). The petition process closed at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 13, and no more nominees will be added to the slate.

The rules for the petition process adopted by Standing Committee include the following: Each nominee was required to obtain the signatures of at least 21 church members from at least three different congregations within the Diocese of California. The petition also needed to include the names of at least nine clergy and at least nine lay persons. Petition nominees must comply with the same regulations and procedures as the nominees presented by the Search Committee and announced by the Standing Committee on February 20, 2006.

The May 6 election will take place in a special convention at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral.

More information about the nominees and the electing process is available at BishopSearch.org.

Final Slate of Nominees:

• The Rt. Rev. Mark Handley Andrus, Bishop Suffragan, Diocese of Alabama

• The Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, Officer for Congregational Development, Diocese of California

• The Rev. Jane Gould, Rector, St. Stephen's Church, Lynn, Massachusetts

• The Rev. Bonnie Perry, D.Min., Rector, All Saints' Church, Chicago, Illinois

• The Rev. Donald Schell, Co-rector, St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco, California

• The Rev. Canon Eugene Taylor Sutton, Canon Pastor, Washington National Cathedral, and Director of the Cathedral Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage

• The Very Rev. Robert V. Taylor, Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, Washington

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