The Election of a New
Bishop Suffragan for Federal Ministries
 

Draft Protocols

Nominees = 3-6 (at large, through Chaplains or multiple Chaplains)

Petition Nominees = per Canon (a process that allows for 3 weeks notice to the
House of Bishops)

Consultant = The Rev’d Conrad Selnick

Profile = DVD (sent to bishops, Standing Committees, Deans, Chaplains & Eucharistic
Fellowships)

Background Checks = Yes

Walk About = At House of Bishops meeting in March 2010

Election = At House of Bishops meeting in March 2010

Chaplain = The Rev’d Stuart Kenworthy

Committees:

Nominating Committee

12 -- clergy & laity from various chaplaincies & military branches (no bishops)
To be named by the Discernment Committee and appointed by the Special Committee:

• 4 lay members of Eucharistic Fellowships (recommend at least one NCO be included)
• 1 federal prison Chaplains
• 3 military Chaplains
• 2 VA. hospital Chaplains
• 1-2 at large by the Special Committee (if needed)

Administration (if not from Staff with the Consultant)

Transition = 5 persons

= 815 – HR/PBp’s. Recommend: Canon Chuck Robertson and Vivian Harris
= Staff – (1) Terry Foster
= Chaplain –(1) to be appointed by George Packard

= Consecration –John Chane
   Washington
   New York
   Bishop Elect’s Diocese

PBp.’s Calendar (June or September 2010)