Update: There is a lot more here, including this:
The Rochester diocese serves 12,000 members and 52 congregations in upstate New York, where Lane has lived his entire life. The Maine diocese has 17,000 members and 67 congregations.
Lane and his wife, Gretchen, a special education teacher, expect to relocate to Maine in early April. The couple have three grown children and four grandchildren.
“I’m delighted that the convention was so clear about who they want as their next bishop,” Knudsen said after Lane’s election was announced shortly before noon. “Electing him on the first ballot is a clear signal that they are ready to begin their ministry with him.”
She was elected the first female bishop to serve the diocese in November 1997 on the fifth ballot. Knudsen succeeded the Right Rev. Edward C. Chalfant, who went on paid leave in April 1996 after it became public that he had an affair with an unmarried woman. The next month, the statewide Standing Committee asked Chalfant to resign when allegations were made of an abuse of power.
Knudsen will visit family in Europe and rest next fall, then do missionary work in Haiti, she said of her retirement plans.
Interesting how Bishop Knudsen can speak so confidently of the meaning of a first ballot election and Maine but then I believe she and her diocese did not consent to the first ballot election of the person South Carolina elected.
I guess first ballot elections mean some things in one diocese but not in others.