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ALABAMA: Diocese announces 4 nominees for bishop
Episcopal News Service. April 26, 2011 [042611-02]
ENS staff
The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama has selected four priests to stand for election as its 11th bishop, according to an April 25 release from the diocese.
The nominees are:
- the Rev. Kenneth L. Chumbley, 57, rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Springfield, Missouri;
- the Rev. Clare Fischer-Davies, 55, rector of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Providence, Rhode Island;
- the Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan, 55, bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama; and
- he Rev. William C. Treadwell, III, 50, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Waco, Texas.
Biographical information about the candidates is available here.
The diocesan Standing Committee will accept additional nominations by petition until May 6.
The election is scheduled for July 16 and the consecration is planned for Jan. 7, 2012. Both events will be held at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham.
The 11th bishop of Alabama will succeed the Rt. Rev. Henry N. Parsley Jr., who is retiring. Parsley, who has served the diocese since 1999 as its 10th bishop, made his announcement during the diocese's 179th convention in February 2010.
The Diocese of Alabama includes more than 30,000 members in 92 parishes and worshiping communities, covering north and central Alabama and the Black Belt region. The diocese has three campus ministry centers and eight campus chaplains.