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UTAH: Bishop-elect Scott Hayashi completes consent process

Episcopal News Service. September 16, 2010 [091610-03]

ENS staff

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's office announced Sept. 16 that Bishop-elect Scott Byron Hayashi of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah has received the required number of consents from bishops with jurisdiction and diocesan standing committees to his ordination and consecration.

Hayashi, 56, was elected May 22 as 11th bishop of Utah on the second ballot from a field of three nominees. A fourth nominee withdrew after the first ballot.

He received 73 of 128 votes cast in the lay order and 20 of 38 cast in the clergy order at a special electing convention at St. Mark's Cathedral in Salt Lake City. An election on that ballot required 65 in the lay order and 20 in the clergy order.

His consecration and ordination will be held Nov. 6 at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. The presiding bishop will officiate.

He will be formally seated on Nov. 7 at St. Mark's Cathedral.

Most recently Hayashi served as canon to the ordinary in the Diocese of Chicago. He will succeed the Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish, 70, who was elected in 1996.

While Hayashi has received the necessary majority of consents, consents will continue to be accepted up to and including the Nov. 5 deadline.

As outlined under Canon III.11.4(a), the presiding bishop confirmed the receipt of consents from a majority of bishops with jurisdiction (diocesan bishops only), and has also reviewed the evidence of consents from a majority of the diocesan standing committees of the church.