Find them here and please join me in praying for the election.
Update: here is the proposed schedule
Reconvening for the Election of the 8th Bishop of Upper South Carolina
December 12, 2009
Averyt Hall, Trinity Center for Mission and Ministry
Host ”“ Trinity Cathedral, Columbia
9:00 am Registration
10:00 am
Mission and Ministry ”“ Session I
Check in for registered delegates closes for the 1st ballot
The Holy Eucharist
The First Ballot
Check in for registered delegates reopens after the 1st ballot is closed.
Continuing prayers, meditations, hymn singing
Check in for registered delegates closes for the 2nd ballot
Results of the 1st Ballot announced
The Second Ballot
Check in for registered delegates reopens after the 2nd ballot is closed.
Continuing prayers, meditations, hymn singing
The process continues until there is an election.
12:30 pm Lunch
The Next Ballot
Check in for registered delegates reopens after the next ballot is closed.
Continuing prayers, meditations, hymn sing
The process continues until there is an election.
The Song of Praise
Concluding Prayers
The Blessing
The Dismissal
All delegates proceed to check-in tables to sign the testimonial of election.
Only 8 bishops – was USC created out of another diocese, or do their bishops live for hundreds of years?
Prayers for them today.
Is this the results page or the fan page for the Partridge Family Bus?;-)
#2 – lol – I see what you mean.
According to Bishop Thomas’ history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina (1957), the rector of Trinity Church, Columbia — the Rev. Kirkman George Finlay — was elected as Bishop Coadjutor in 1920 with the intention of creating a new diocese within three years. Thomas points to the emergence of two distinct regions of South Carolina, unique in “history, background and economy . . . [Thus] on May 17, 1922, plans for the actual division of the diocese were adopted at a meeting of the 132nd Council of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina in St. Philip’s Church in Charleston (p. 462-3).” The new diocese began in October of 1922 with Bishop Finlay, 23 members of the clergy, 25 parishes and 4 organized missions.
Thanks for the history lesson, Lydia (#4).
As for the election, at least Upper SC has some decent conservatives on the ballot. That can’t be taken for granted. In several recent elections in TEC there weren’t any. For example, in Los Angeles last week.
We won’t have to wait long to find out how it goes.
David Handy+
Has anyone heard any news on this yet? What is the process for balloting. It says it begins late morning — it is now early afternoon and nothing is posted yet….
Not a peep, Catherine. I’m trying to grade 90 final exams while constantly clicking “refresh” on the Diocesan webpage.
#4 Thank you
They’ve voted, but are now at lunch. They are apparently having some logistical problems getting lunches to everyone. This may take a while!
If the electing convention is run the way the Diocese has been run this will take quite a while.
Just got word (unconfirmed) that the first ballot was declared invalid. Don’t know why.
http://www.edusc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=509&Itemid=81
Nominee
Clergy Lay
The Very Rev. John B. Burwell
4 20
The Very Rev. Dr. Philip C. Linder
39 31
The Rev. Canon Dr. Neal O. Michell
14 52
The Rev. David F. O. Thompson
13 25
The Rev. W. Andrew Waldo
36 72
The Rev. Jerre Stockton Williams, Jr. 8 31
The Rev. Robert Brown (from the floor)
0 1
I’ve heard through the grape vine that there was one too many lay votes… the tally I’ve been given for votes went as follows:
Name (Clergy / Lay)
Burwell 4, 20
Linder 39, 31
Michell 14, 52
Thompson 13, 25
Waldo 36, 72
Williams 8, 31
Ballot #1 is up – Waldo has best #s. None of the clearly orthodox folks have any traction with the clergy – even if all votes suddenly got behind one of them. So, another revisionist on the way.
if the deputies for the conservatives unite and hold behind Michell they might prevent the election of a lousy candidate. Better to go home wondering where Waldo is than knowing he’s in Columbia.
So, if we break it down by Traditionalists and Revisionists, it looks something like this:
Revisionists: 88 (clergy) 128 (Lay) 216 (total)
Traditionalists: 26 (clergy) 103 (Lay) 129 (tota)
That doesn’t bode well.
Sad, the clergy clearly going for Linder and Waldo…the laity are splitting their vote….but the clergy are clearly going for the liberal candidates.
Not good…but not surprising either…Still praying
Interesting that the last agenda item, following the dismissal, is “All delegates proceed to check-in tables to sign the testimonial of election.†This implies that everyone is expected to sign, but the wording of the testimonial (Canon III.11.3) contains expressions of substantive belief, including that the person elected is [blockquote]of such sufficiency in learning, of such soundness in the Faith, and of such godly character as to be able to exercise the Office of a Bishop to the honor of God and the edifying of the Church, and to be a wholesome example to the flock of Christ.[/blockquote]
One hopes that the outcome is such that this is so, and if there is an election, there should exist the constitutional majority sufficient to meet the canonical requirements for the testimonial. But it seems a mistake to say imply that everyone has to sign.
Conservative division. Why would liberal clergy vote for the continued destruction of their church and distancing from Canterbury?
Burwell. C2. L3
Linder. C35. L33
Michell. C20. L61
Thompson. C6. L11
Waldo. C51. L103
Williams. C2. L24
Second Ballot
Burwell L3 C2
Michelle L61 C20
Williams L24 C2
Waldo L103 C51
Thompson L11 C6
Linder L33 C35 Needed L118 C59
Thanks for the post(s)[episco]paladin.
Burwell has just withdrawn.
Here’s my analysis of the broader message:
http://northernplainsanglicans.blogspot.com/2009/12/picture-of-departure-of-traditional.html
We now feel the departure of traditional Christians at the diocesan and parish levels.
Burwell: (Withdrawn) 1,0
Linder: 25,22
Michell: 22,76
Thompson: 2,1
Waldo: 64,129
Williams: 2,6
Waldo wins.
Heartbreaking news.
That is a shame.
I guess God spoke.
Perhaps, John (#29), God did speak. But what He said is yet to be determined. Romans 1 teaches us that as a final act of judgement God, in fact, gives us what we desire. Was the election in DUSC a good thing? Was it judgement? What, exactly, is God saying?
Yes, John — in a very similar way to the way He spoke to the rebellious Israelites.
Sometimes God chooses to have mercy. Sometimes He allows us to bear the consequences of our sin.