The Rev. Michael Joseph Hanley was elected Nov. 20 to be the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, pending the required consents.
Hanley, 54, rector of St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Roseville, Minnesota, was elected on the second ballot out of a field of three candidates. He received 146 votes of 198 cast in the lay order and 104 of 132 cast in the clergy order. An election on the second ballot required 100 in the lay order and 67 in the clergy order. The results of all the ballots are available here.
Hanley served churches in Oklahoma, Missouri and elsewhere in Minnesota before being calling to Roseville in 1998. He is a three-time alternate deputy to General Convention. Hanley holds a doctor of ministry degree from Virginia Theological Seminary and a master of divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon in June 1981 and priest in April 1982. Hanley is married to Marla Martin Hanley, associate academic dean at St. Catherine University in the Twin Cities.
Mazel tov — to Oregon and to the bishop-elect!
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