Episcopal Press and News
Oregon diocese elects Michael Joseph Hanley as next bishop
Episcopal News Service. November 20, 2009 [112009-02]
ENS staff
The Rev. Michael Joseph Hanley was elected Nov. 20 to be the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, pending the required consents.
Hanley, 54, rector of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Roseville, Minnesota, was elected on the second ballot out of a field of three candidates. He received 146 votes of 198 cast in the lay order and 104 of 132 cast in the clergy order. An election on the second ballot required 100 in the lay order and 67 in the clergy order. The results of all the ballots are available here.
Hanley served churches in Oklahoma, Missouri and elsewhere in Minnesota before being calling to Roseville in 1998. He is a three-time alternate deputy to General Convention. Hanley holds a doctor of ministry degree and a master of divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon in June 1981 and priest in April 1982. Hanley is married to Marla Martin Hanley, associate academic dean at St. Catherine University in the Twin Cities.
The election took place at the Hilton Hotel in Eugene, Oregon, during the diocese's 121st annual convention Nov. 19-21.
Hanley was elected to succeed Bishop Johncy Itty, who resigned from his diocesan position at the end of 2008. Itty was elected in May 2003. Bishop Sanford Hampton, resigned bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Minnesota and retired bishop assistant of the Diocese of Olympia, has been Oregon's assisting bishop since April 2008.
Under the canons of the Episcopal Church (III.11.4 (a)) that apply after all episcopal elections, a majority of bishops exercising jurisdiction and diocesan standing committees must consent to the Hanley's ordination within 120 days from the day after notice of his election is sent to them.
Hanley's ordination and consecration is scheduled for April 10, 2010.
The other candidates were:
- the Rev. Dr. Andrew Jeffrey MacBeth, 60, rector, Calvary Church, Memphis, Tennessee (Diocese of West Tennessee); and
- the Rev. Canon Britt Elaine Olson, 49, canon to the ordinary, Diocese of Northern California.
More information about all nominees is available here.