IT IS NOT OVER YET....

Yes, we elected The Rev. Mark D.W. Edington on the 8th ballot on October 20, 2018, during the annual Convention of the Convocation in All Saints Church in Waterloo, Belgium. But Bishop-elect Mark cannot be ordained and consecrated until a majority of the Standing Committees of all Episcopal dioceses and all diocesan bishops have approved the election. This consent process, managed by the Council of Advice, can take a couple of months.

Before we can even write to the standing committees and diocesan bishops, we have to provide all sorts of documents and certificates. 

But we have much to do before the ordination and consecration planned for Saturday April 6, 2019 , at the Cathedral in Paris. That service, the reception that follows, the farewell service and celebration for Bishop Pierre the previous evening, the visa and accommodation for the Bishop-elect and family ….. all of this (and more) needs to be planned and organized. The Transition Committee has therefore formed some new subcommittees, and brought more volunteers on board, to help manage the whole process.

Currently we have teams working on the following topics:

Timetable for the Consecration weekend:

Please pray for everyone involved in this process, for the Transition Committee, for the Office of the Presiding Bishop, for Bishop Pierre and for Bishop-elect Mark.



The Transition Committee

For further information about the Bishop-elect Mark Edington see

Bishop Search Website 

This site includes: 

The URL is:   www.europebishopsearch.org 

Previous Bishop Search Update E-Mails....

October 18-21, 2018 - Election Convention at All Saints in Waterloo BE

Following the Election of a new Bishop in Charge

April 5, 2019

April 6, 2019 - Ordination and Consecration of the new Bishop in Charge in the Cathedral in Paris, France

April 7, 2019

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)

Front row, left to right:   Mrs Carole Ducastel , All Saints, Waterloo, Belgium; The Very Rev. Lucinda Laird , Dean, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Paris France; Mrs Nancy Janin , Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Paris, France.

Back row, left to right:  Dr David Lee Williams , Christ Church, Clermont-Ferrand, France; Mrs Dagmar Hamberger , St Boniface, Augsburg, Germany; Mrs Helena Mbele-Mbong , Emmanuel, Geneva, Switzerland; Mr David Case – Co-Chair, Church of the Ascension, Munich Germany; The Rev. Deacon Richard Cole , Emmanuel, Geneva, Switzerland; The Rev. Mark Dunham – Co-Chair, Rector, St James, Florence, Italy. 

Not Pictured:   The Rev. Austin Rios, Rector, St Paul’s-within-the-Walls, Rome, Italy;  Mr John Adam , St Augustine, Wiesbaden Germany; The Rev. Canon Michael Hunn , Episcopal Church Center, New York, USA;  Ms Nancy Treuhold , Board of Foreign Parishes, New York, USA. 

Further information on the Membership and the Duties of the Search and the Transition Committees can be found here.

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 2019. This initiated a Search Process for our second elected Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe.