The Rev. Canon Michael
Buerkel Hunn, Canon to the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, was
elected the next bishop of the Diocese of the Rio Grande at the Electing
Convention Saturday, May 5 at the Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
The slate of three
candidates were Canon Hunn, the Rev. Canon Lucinda Ashby, Canon to the Ordinary
for the Diocese of Idaho, and the Rev. Simon Charles Justice, Rector of Church
of the Good Samaritan, Corvallis, Oregon.
Canon Hunn was elected on the third ballot. Diocesan Constitution
and Canons require a majority, determined by the total number of those eligible
to vote, in Lay and Clergy orders on the same ballot. You can see the totals,
by ballot, on the Diocesan website.
After the bishop-elect receives the canonically required consent
of a majority of the Episcopal Church's diocesan standing committees and bishops
with jurisdiction, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will ordain and consecrate
the new bishop Nov. 3 in Albuquerque. Info about this, and other Transition events is available on the Transition Team website.
In accepting the
election, Canon Hunn expressed his thanks to Bishop Michael L. Vono, the
current bishop for his leadership of the Diocese. "I feel a great sense of
humility to be following you as God's servant in the Diocese of the Rio
Grande. I know you love your people and I want you to know I will love
them faithfully and care for them with every capacity God gives me. I am also grateful
to begin this ministry at this moment - when you have done so much to heal,
reconcile and build trust over the course of your episcopate."
You can read more from Canon Hunn in the special edition of In the Loop.
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| Canon Michael & Meg Hunn at Santa Fe Walk About (photo by Jim Overton) |