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Eastman Chosen Maryland Coadjutor

Episcopal News Service. March 25, 1982 [82080]

BALTIMORE (DPS, March 25) -- The Rev. Albert Theodore Eastman, rector of St. Alban's Parish in Washington has been elected bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.

The election took place at a special session of the diocesan convention March 20 at Trinity Church, Towson, Md. Eastman received the required majority in both lay and clerical orders on the third ballot after leading a field of five from the outset.

Eastman, 53, has been rector of St. Alban's since 1973. A native of California, he is a graduate of Haverford College and Virginia Theological Seminary. He is a fellow of the College of Preachers and was a visiting fellow at Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest.

The bishop-elect has served parishes in California and Pennsylvania and as executive secretary of the Overseas Mission Society and an executive with Consultation Renewal of Washington. He has been active in diocesan affairs, serving on clerical associations, and the standing committee of the diocese, of which he is now president.

He was a member of the board of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief for six years and served as chairman of the board's executive committee for two years. As a deputy to the 1976 and 1979 meetings of the General Convention he served on the Convention's Joint Commission on World Mission.

Maryland's Diocesan Bishop David K. Leighton has announced that he intends to retire when he turns 65 in 1987. In the interim, Eastman, once he receives the required canonical consents of standing committees and diocesan bishops and is consecrated, will be given responsibility for major program areas of the diocese. These will include mission congregations, education, social ministries, advocacy programs, ecumenism and spiritual development.

Leighton has been bishop in the diocese, first as coadjutor, and since 1971 as diocesan, since 1968. The diocese consists of 123 parishes and missions and more than 60,000 baptised members.