From ENS:
The Ven. Rev. Mary Gray-Reeves was elected June 16 to be the next bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real.
Gray-Reeves, 44, archdeacon for deployment, Diocese of Southeast Florida, was elected on the second ballot from a slate of four candidates (a fifth candidate, the Rev. Paige Blair, withdrew after the first ballot). An election on the second ballot required 103 votes of the 205 cast in the lay order and 58 of 114 votes cast in the clergy order. Gray-Reeves was elected with 163 lay votes and 91 clergy votes.
She becomes the 15th woman elected as a bishop of the Episcopal Church and she will be among the five youngest members of the House of Bishops.
As Seinfield would say, “Not that it matters” but as a GC2003 clergy deputy she voted to consent to Vicki Gene’s election.
TPaine
My bad! You got the expression right –and that’s all
And Seinfeld was the “show about nothing”. The possibilities here are endless… :snake:
Younger and younger liberal usurpers. Definitely young enough to oversee its demise. See statistics here. A near 20% drop in the past 5 years.
Well, if it’s any consolation, I was the youngest priest in my diocese when I was ordained. And most of my friends from seminary, who were around my age, were also pretty conservative.
Of course, most of us have also since swum the Tiber or the Bosporus, but … well. Okay, my point was that I was a young conservative priest when I was in ECUSA.
Anglicanum, is that suppose to be consoling???
Once again, a new bishop judged by age and one vote. Do you know anything else about her? Or does nothing else matter?
TPaine (#9) – I probably wouldn’t include most Methodists and Presbyterians as “evangelical Protestants.” It is possible, but for the most part the UMC and the PC(USA) are not filled with evangelicals. It is possible of course that your Presbyterians came out of the EPC, OPC or PCA in which case you could probably call them evangelicals.
I’m not sure why it’s not fair to draw conclusions from how a person votes on the consecration of a person living in a sexually active relationship outside of marraige. The VGR election established same-sex relationnships as acceptable within TEC, and Ms. Gray-Reeves declared herself on the question. 44 isn’t shockingly young for a bishop, although 6 years of leading a congregation is a bit thin. At least St. Margaret’s maintained a stable ASA during her years (140 give or take), though it cratered after 2003 (50 or so in 2005).
TPaine – you don’t mention that any of your folks had come from the Catholic Church. Recently, the claim was made somewhere that were it not for Catholics swimming the Thames, the TEC would have declined 50% over the past generation, rather than 35%. I’ve been looking for some actual verification on that, and mention is here because of your report. Were there no former Catholics (or Orthodox) in your group?
#8
http://www.edecr.org/bishopsearch/slate/MaryGrayReeves.pdf
Has the Q+A for Gray-Reeves’s nomination. It is interesting how she doesn’t appear totally oblivious to Scripture, but she does appear oblivious to Tradition. She appears to be reasonable, but how this ties into any foundation built on anything other than sand is not apparent to me.
Her discussion at length concerning her vote for VGR is interesting, and not due to which way she voted. She essentially never presented why she voted the way she did in any direct terms. Unless I missed something, that says a great deal about this coadjutor-elect. If you don’t see my point here, you might look up the verse this weblog is named after.