Leaders of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh have nominated a bishop from southern Ohio to serve as a full-time interim bishop for the next few years.
A diocesan convention will vote Oct. 17 on whether to elect Bishop Kenneth L. Price, Jr., the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, as provisional bishop of the minority who remained with the Episcopal Church after last year’s diocesan convention voted to leave the Episcopal Church. He would have the full executive authority of a diocesan bishop, but his position would be temporary.
As I posted over on SFIF:
In 1991 Bishop Hathaway appointed a search committee to recommend three candidates from which he would apppoint a Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of Pittsburgh. (I was a member of that Committee) Bob Duncan and Ken Price were two of the final three. All three had much experience and were eminently qualified. All three had administrative gifting which was one of the stated needs. Only one could articulate a clear vision of a preferable future that insprired the committee. He was clearly a leader that people would follow. And after interviewing all three Bishop Hathaway hired him without hesitation. Bob Duncan in four years as CTO almost single-handedly revitalized the Diocese of Pittsburgh. +Bob’s election in 1995 as bishop co-adjutor is a story in itself
David,
For the benefit of non-Pittsburghers (and some of us new boys and girls on the block), please develop your thought. I know what the TEC Diocese does is not your concern but there are those within it who are near and dear to you. Aside from the “vision thing,” is Bishop Price as good an interim as could be expected at the moment? I know long-term whom I want to see in that office (and I say this as someone nominally within ACNA for the moment), but an in-house election would be just too traumatic at present.
The maxim is that past performance is the best indicator of future performance. By all indications Bishop Price is an able adminstrative functionary, politically saavy and above all else swears complete fealty to the Episcopal Church as an institution. His work in Southern Ohio has been amply outlined from a conservative point of view over on SFIF in the story line posted by Sarah Hey.
As I recall and I believe most of the 1991 CTO Search Cmte would also attest, +Bob Duncan was far and away the most articulate and creative thinker among our candidates. The Diocese in the late eigthies and early nineties was broken and was sinking fast. Bob Duncan was able to quickly put together a plan to right the ship and get it sailing in the right direction once again.