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Episcopal News Service. December 8, 1993 [93125L_Z]

The Rev. Robert C. Johnson was elected bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina at a special convention Saturday, December 4. Johnson was elected on the sixth ballot from a field of six nominees. He is currently rector of St. Luke's Church in Durham. "This is a job the diocese does together," Johnson told members of the convention following his election. "I bid you to help me learn to do this job and to keep the diocese a strong, healthy, faithful and joyful Christian community. Thank you for your trust in me." Johnson will succeed Bishop Robert W. Estill who plans to retire when his successor is consecrated on May 14.

The Rev. Larry E. Maze, was elected bishop of the Diocese of Arkansas on the fifth ballot at a special convention on November 13. Maze was ordained to the priesthood in Montana in 1973 and has served as rector of Church of the Nativity in Greenwood, Mississippi since 1988. Maze will succeed Bishop Herbert Donovan of Arkansas who resigned effective September 1 to become vicar of Trinity Church, Wall Street, in New York. Consecration of the new bishop has been scheduled for June 11, 1994.

The Rev. Edwin F. Gulick, rector of St. Stephen's Church in Newport News, Virginia, was elected bishop of Kentucky on November 6. Gulick was elected on the eighth ballot. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1974 and has served in national and diocesan evangelism consultant training programs and chaired diocesan commissions in liturgy and music, ministry and program coordination. Gulick will replace Bishop David Reed who is retiring in April of 1994. For the first time in the Diocese of Kentucky, five youth deputies voted in the election.