Wyoming Episcopalians elected the Rev. John Smylie of St. Mark’s Episcopalian Church in Casper as their ninth bishop during an election convention Saturday.
Smylie has been the rector of St. Mark’s since January 2007. Before that, Smylie held various positions at Episcopal institutions in Washington, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, according to the Web site www.wyomingbishopsearch.org.
He received a Bachelor of Arts at Syracuse University in 1975 and a Master of Divinity at the Episcopalian Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1981.
“Spring has arrived and today we begin a new season in the life of the Episcopal diocese of Wyoming,” he said through a spokesman Saturday.