A New Yorker would return to some deep Omaha roots if he ends up the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska.
The Rev. J. Scott Barker was elected Saturday during a special diocesan council at St. Mark’s Pro-Cathedral in Hastings, Neb.
Barker is among the sixth generation of the Barker family in Omaha. The prominent family at one time owned thousands of acres of prime Omaha real estate. One of those locations became the site of the Barker Building on the southwest corner of 15th and Farnam Streets.
Congratulations to the new Bishop-elect.
The family Patriarch sounds quite the remarkable man. The sort of figure in whom the vast energy and restless turbulence of the Victorian age are visible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Barker_(minister)