To a standing ovation, and in front of an audience of more than 800, Foley Beach was consecrated on Saturday as the first bishop of the newly formed Anglican Diocese of the South. Beach is the rector of Holy Cross Anglican Church in Loganville.
“It’s a great day for this region and a great day for the Anglican Church in North America,” said Archbishop Robert Duncan, of the Anglican Church in North America, as he brought greetings from the Global Anglican Future Conference Archbishops, a group that represents more than 40 million Anglicans. “Whenever we make a bishop, it is just a great ceremony in which we see what we inherit.”
Who were the consecrating bishops? Archbishop Duncan I presume was chief consecrator but who assisted?
I recognized +Guernsey among the consecrators.
May God bless this new enterprise.
there are pictures and video here:
http://www.adots.org/page8.html
I count 12 bishops total and 6 laying on hands. From the photos, Don Harvey appears to be one of the six.
The bishop to the right (viewer’s left) of the reader in the still for Part I of the consecration video is Bishop Neil Lebhar of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese.
Bishops Present:
John Guernsey
David Anderson
William Thompson
Roger Ames
Bob Duncan
Frank Lyons
TJ Johnston
Don Harvey
Derek Jones
Neil Lebhar
John Miller
Any idea what their jurisdictions/provinces are? I see Bolivia, ACNA, and AMIA (now AM) represented.
Duncan, chief consecrator; Anderson CANA, Johnson AM, Lyons Bolivia, co-consecrators; Guernsey Holy Spirit ACNA, Thompson Western Anglicans ACNA, Harvey ACiC, Jones CANA, Lebhar Gulf Coast ACNA, Ames Great Lakes ACNA, and Miller AM.