A commuting canon in the Erie-based Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania is headed to South Carolina to become a bishop.
The Rev. Ruth Woodliff-Stanley is canon for strategic change in the Episcopal Dioceses of Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania. The bishop for those partnered dioceses in Buffalo and Erie is the Right Rev. Sean Rowe.
Woodliff-Stanley was elected this month as the 15th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina. After her Oct. 2 consecration, she will be the first female to serve as bishop in the more than 200-year history of the Charleston-based diocese, officials said. I am looking forward to building the future of the church with a diocese that is so welcoming to all people, Woodliff-Stanley said.
A commuting canon in the Erie-based Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania is headed to South Carolina to become a bishop.
The Rev. Ruth Woodliff-Stanley is canon for strategic change in the Episcopal Dioceses of Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania. The bishop for those partnered dioceses in Buffalo and Erie is the Right Rev. Sean Rowe.
Woodliff-Stanley was elected this month as the 15th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina. After her Oct. 2 consecration, she will be the first female to serve as bishop in the more than 200-year history of the Charleston-based diocese, officials said. I am looking forward to building the future of the church with a diocese that is so welcoming to all people, Woodliff-Stanley said.
Ruth Woodliff-Stanley elected 15th bishop of South Carolina
Bishop-elect to be first diocesan bishop since 2012; first female to serve in the role in South Carolina
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South Carolina Bishop-elect Ruth M. Woodliff-Stanley.
[Diocese of South Carolina] The Rev. Ruth M. Woodliff-Stanley was May 1 to be the 15th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina during a Special Meeting of Convention held for the purposes of the election. Once consecrated in October, Bishop-elect Woodliff-Stanley will be the first female to serve as bishop in the more than 200-year history of the historic diocese.
Woodliff-Stanley, who currently serves as canon for strategic change for the Dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania & Western New York, and the senior vice president for strategic change with the Episcopal Church Building Fund, was elected on the second ballot in an election that was fully conducted on Zoom due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. There were five candidates on th
By David Paulsen
Posted Mar 4, 2021
[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Skip Adams, a retired bishop of Central New York, is now serving the dioceses of Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan as assisting bishop while those two dioceses await the outcome of a Title IV disciplinary action against Bishop Whayne Hougland Jr., who was suspended last year for 12 months after admitting to an extramarital affair.
The Rt. Rev. Skip Adams retired as bishop of Central New York in 2016. Photo: Dioceses of Eastern and Western Michigan
Adams, who led the Diocese of Central New York from 2001 to 2016 and then served three years as bishop provisional in the Diocese of South Carolina, was welcomed Feb. 1 as consultant and then assisting bishop of the two dioceses in central Michigan.