Minnesota’s 22,000 Episcopalians will be led by a 50-year-old priest from Spokane, Wash.
Delegates at the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota’s 152nd annual convention Saturday voted to name the Rev. Brian Prior as their next bishop.
In doing so, they sidestepped three potentially historic choices for the 106-congregation diocese’s ninth bishop: a woman, a Native American or an openly partnered lesbian.
Let the howling about a “missed opportunity” begin.