DON Announces Candidates for Bishop

Diocese of Newark Announces Candidates for Bishop

The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark
announces the candidates for the 10th Bishop of Newark as presented by
the diocesan Search/Nominating Committee.

The candidates are:

The Very Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, Congregational Development
Officer for the Diocese of California
The Rev. Mark Beckwith, rector, All Saints Church in Worcester,
MA
The Very Rev. Petero Sabune, prison chaplain in the Diocese of
New York
The Rev. William "Chip" Stokes, rector, St. Paul's Church in
Delray Beach, FL.

Photos and a brief biography of each candidate are available on the
Search/Nominating Committee web site at
http://bishopsearch.dioceseofnewark.org/index.html

The Search/Nominating Committee began its work a year ago, initially by
preparing a profile of the diocese and those qualities sought in its
next bishop. The committee evaluated every person nominated thoroughly
and prayerfully before the final selections were made. The committee
based its choices solely on how the nominees matched the profile of the
diocese and did not eliminate anyone because of their race, gender or
sexual orientation.

"The Standing Committee is deeply grateful to the Search/Nominating
Committee for its hard work over the past year," said Edgar Kim Byham,
President of the Standing Committee. "They have admirably fulfilled
their charge from the Standing Committee to give us a slate of
candidates, any one of whom would make an excellent Bishop of Newark.

"These nominees, as well as those who may be nominated by petition, will
provide an outstanding opportunity for our amazing diocese, with the
help of the Holy Spirit, to discern who would best lead us into the next
phase of Christ's mission in northern New Jersey," he said.

Nominations by petition must be sent to Byham no later than 6:00 PM EDT
on Wednesday, July 5, 2006. Details for the process of nomination by
petition may be found on the web site of the Diocese of Newark at:
http://www.dioceseofnewark.org/nom_by_petition.html.

All the candidates will be invited to take part in a series of "Walk
Abouts" throughout the diocese in September, where they will meet and
talk to electors and others in the diocese. On September 23rd, a
special convention will be held in Newark to elect the new bishop. The
voting will be in two orders, clergy and lay, and a majority of both
orders on the same ballot is required for election. Following consents
from other diocesan Standing Committees and bishops, the new bishop is
to take over for retiring bishop John P. Croneberger in February.

Contact:
The Rev. Sandye Wilson
(973) 763-3754
sandyea@aol.com