\u201cPapa is going to Pittsburgh to be the new Rook,” announced one of Jim Hobby\u2019s young grandsons recently.<\/p>\n
Hobby, rector (pastor) of Trinity Anglican Church in Thomasville, was recently elected by the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh to fill the office of retiring Bishop Robert Duncan, former \u201d\u201d and founding \u201d\u201d archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).<\/p>\n
Although he clearly got his game pieces mixed up, it\u2019s no surprise the 4-year old budding chess player would assign his grandfather a position just behind the rank and file of the game: it\u2019s where Hobby has faithfully served the last 30 years as an ordained member of the Anglican priesthood. But how does the rector of a relatively new congregation from a small town in south Georgia become the bishop-elect of one of the country\u2019s biggest \u201d\u201d some would say its flagship \u201d\u201d diocese?<\/p>\n