The Search/Nomination Committee and the Transition Committee will be giving regular updates on the Search Process through regular emails.
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From the Search and Nomination Committee:
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The Bishop Search and Nomination Committee is now entering the final stages of the eight-month process for identifying three to four candidates who could be called to serve as our next Bishop in Charge. The final selection will be presented to the Council of Advice in June and, after a “walk around” to meet as many of our congregants as possible (Paris, Munich and Rome), one will be elected by the delegates at the
Convocation Convention
in Waterloo, Belgium, next October.
From an encouragingly large pool of candidates and after many hours of reading the submitted materials, listening to sermons, researching church and other websites, conducting video conferences, contacting references, and importantly much prayer, the committee is continuing in discussion with a small group of candidates. The committee will be meeting these people at a three-day discernment retreat in May and after this time of deep mutual discernment, the final selection will be made of those to be presented to the Council of Advice in June.
The committee thanks you for your inputs, notably into the survey which formed an important part of the profile of the Convocation. This encouraged many dedicated and inspiring candidates to explore joining us in our mission. We are also grateful for all your prayers during this discernment and ask you to continue to pray for all those connected with the process: the Search and Nomination Committee, the Transition Committee, the Council of Advice and all those clergy who have stepped forward for this discernment, including the person who will eventually accept the Call to be our next Bishop in Charge.
The Bishop Search and Nomination Committee
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe.
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The Bishop Search Website
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Check out the
This website is the "go to" place for all information for the Bishop Search, Nomination, and the Transition processes.
This site includes:
- The Convocation Profile, which was developed by the Bishop Search and Nomination Committee, both in an on-line and a downloadable form.
- When the list of candidates has been finalized, biographical and other information about the candidates will be posted.
- It will also include other information about the Convocation, which will assist persons who are interested in the bishop search process, including a description of the Convocation Parishes and Missions.
- As of May 7, there have been over 22,700 visitors to the website.
- The Bishop Search has engendered great interest in the Episcopal Church and elsewhere in the Anglican Communion.
Bishop Search Update E-Mails....
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Prayer for the Convocation
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O God, we pray for the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe as we discern and elect a Bishop to serve your people, build up your Church and proclaim boldly the Gospel to the world. Send us, we pray, an apostle who is a wise counsellor, a merciful pastor, filled with your joy and grace. May your servant have the abundant gifts needed to lead your flock and the strength and courage to administer them. And may we renew and rededicate our lives to your will and service. All this we pray in the Name of our Great High Priest and Servant of the servants of God, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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Timetable of the Search for the Next
Bishop in Charge
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October 2016 - Convocation Convention in Fürstenried Palace, Munich, Germany
- Bishop Pierre W. Whalon announces his intention to resign as Bishop in Charge effective July 2019
- Strategic planning process begun with small group activity at convention
- Strategic Plan committee is appointed and commissioned
Winter and Spring 2016/2017
- Strategic plan is developed with input from all significant groups in the convocation, the Presiding Bishop's office, and with full-communion partners in Europe
September 2017
- Strategic plan is approved by the Council of Advice
October 2017 - Convocation Convention in Wiesbaden, Germany
- Strategic Plan is presented to Convention
- The Search and Nomination Committee and Transition Committee are commissioned
November 2017
- In consultation with the Presiding Bishop's Office, a Search Consultant is engaged by the Council of Advice
December 2017
- Search and Nomination Committee retreat with the Search Consultant in Paris, France, December 1-2
- Input from congregations and parishioners is received by congregational forums and online surveys.
January 2018
- Transition Committee retreat with the Search Consultant in Florence, January 12-13
- Search Profile is written by Search and Nomination Committee and approved by Council of Advice at the January 26-27, 2018 meeting in Waterloo, Belgium.
Early February 2018
- Publication of the Convocation Bishop Search Profile on the Bishop Search website (europebishopsearch.org)
- The Position is announced in various ecclesiastical venues
- Applications for bishop are received
March 9, 2018 (extended from March 2)
- Window for applications is closed
Spring 2018
- Applications are vetted and a list of up to eight candidates is compiled
May 24-27, 2018
- Discernment Retreat with up to eight candidates and the Search and Nomination Committee, close to Munich, Germany
June 30, 2018
- Final shortlist is presented to the Council of Advice
July 1-20, 2018
- Petition process open for additional candidates
August 15, 2018
- Final list of candidates is made public
September 27-30, 2018
- Presentation of Bishop Candidates and spouses:
- September 27: Paris, France
- September 29: Munich, Germany
- September 30: Rome, Italy
- Election of the Bishop in Charge and regular convention business
Following the Election
- The Standing Committees of all the Episcopal dioceses and all diocesan bishops are asked to approve the election. This process can take several months.
- The Presiding Bishop, Deo volente, receives notice that consents have been received from a majority of bishops and standing committees of the Episcopal Church and announces the name of the Bishop-elect
- The Bishop-elect begins her/his transition to assume office.
April 5, 2019
- Worship Service and soirée honoring Bishop Pierre W. Whalon (Friday evening) at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Paris, France
April 6, 2019 -
Ordination and Consecration of the new Bishop in Charge
in the Cathedral in Paris, France
- The festival liturgy will be celebrated in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris, France. The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, will preside (Saturday at 11:00 a.m.)
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Bishop Search and Nomination Committee
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Bishop Search and Nomination Committee
Left to Right:
Dr David Lee Williams,
Christ Church, Clermont-Ferrand, France;
Mr David Case – Co-Chair
, Church of the Ascension, Munich Germany;
Mrs Dagmar Hamberger
, St Boniface, Augsburg, Germany;
The Rev. Mark Dunham – Co-Chair,
Rector, St James, Florence, Italy;
The Rev. Austin Rios
, Rector, St Paul’s-within-the-Walls, Rome, Italy;
The Very Rev. Lucinda Laird
, Dean, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Paris France;
Mrs Helena Mbele-Mbong
, Emmanuel, Geneva, Switzerland;
Mr John Adam
, St Augustine, Wiesbaden Germany.
Not Pictured:
The Rev, Richard Cole
, Emmanuel, Geneva, Switzerland;
Mrs Carole Ducastel
, All Saints, Waterloo, Belgium;
The Rev. Canon Michael Hunn
, Episcopal Church Center, New York, USA;
Mrs Nancy Janin
, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Paris, France;
Ms Nancy Treuhold
, Board of Foreign Parishes, New York, USA.
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Left to Right:
Dottie Dunnam
(Florence),
Harriet Rivière
(Paris),
Ron Clingenpeel
(consultant),
Rob Warren
(chaplain; Clermont-Ferrand),
Christoph Herpel
(Frankfurt),
Anne Swardson, Co-Chair
(Paris),
Michael Rusk
(Geneva),
Andrea D'Agosto
(Rome),
Chris Easthill, Co-Chair
(Wiesbaden),
Janet Day-Strehlow
(Munich),
Steve Smith
(Munich),
Felicity Handford
(Waterloo), Not Pictured:
Alison Wale
(Clermont-Ferrand)
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Further information on the Membership and the Duties of the Search and the Transition Committees
can be found here.
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The Episcopal Church in Europe
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The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
is one of four Anglican jurisdictions in continental Europe. The other Anglican jurisdictions in Europe are: the
Lusitanian Church of Portugal
, the
Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain
, and the
Church of England's
Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe
. The Convocation is a jurisdiction of the Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church,
the Most Rev. Michael B. Curry
. The Episcopal Church is one of 39 provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church is present in 16 countries around the world.
The Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, a suffragan bishop to the Presiding Bishop, is based at The American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris. There are congregations in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and Austria. The Convocation functions both as a European Church with a legal corporate structure based in France, as well as being a diocesan-like jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church.
The Episcopal Church has been present in Europe since 1815. The Convocation was created by a Canon of General Convention in 1859, and Bishops in Charge were appointed by the Presiding Bishop. Some were diocesan Bishops or recently retired Bishops, who exercised oversight on a part-time basis. Bishops in Charge have been resident in Europe since 1960.
The first full-time resident Bishop in Charge was the Rt. Rev. Edmond Browning (1971-1974).
The first Bishop in Charge to be elected by the Convocation itself
and the first to be ordained and consecrated in Europe is our present Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Pierre Whalon, who was elected in 2001 and consecrated in St. Paul's Within the Walls Episcopal Church in Rome on November 18, 2001.
Bishop Whalon announced his intention to resign as Bishop in Charge effective July 31, 2019. This has initiated a Search Process for our second elected Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe.
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