N.Y. Episcopalians Honor Next Bishop
About 5,000 Episcopalians gathered at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine for a colorful, music-filled service to consecrate Mark S. Sisk as the next bishop for the New York diocese.
Clergy marched with candles and incense, and representatives of some of the diocese’s 207 churches and 64,000 members carried banners through the cathedral to welcome him.
Sisk received the title of bishop coadjutor. He will share diocese responsibilities with the Right Rev. Richard F. Grein and become full bishop when Grein retires.
“You’ll add your stamp to this diocese, as I’ve added mine,” Grein told Sisk from the pulpit. “A bishop is given this great treasure and great responsibility, and the task that is to be performed is to build it up, to nourish it, to keep it.”
The Most Rev. Frank Tracy Griswold III, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, joined about a dozen other bishops in the official consecration.
Sisk, elected to the position last October, was previously president and dean of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill.
The Episcopal Church, with 2.4 million members nationwide, is a member of the 22-nation Anglican Communion, whose spiritual leader is the archbishop of Canterbury in England.
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