General Convention elects youngest Episcopal Presiding Bishop on record
by Mary Ann Mueller, Virtueonline:
General Convention has spoken in electing Bishop Sean Rowe as the latest in a long line of Presiding Bishops which stretch back to William White in 1789.
As a straight white male, the new Presiding Bishop-elect was able to break out of the woke intersectionality which drove the election of the two immediate past leaders of The Episcopal Church — Katherine Jefferts Schori who broke the through stained glass ceiling (2006-2015); and Michael Curry who pulled down the race barrier (2015-2024).
Bishop Rowe sailed through Wednesday’s (June 26) House of Bishops’ election with a simple majority on the first ballot. He garnered 89 votes (56%) when 82 votes were needed to secure the Primate’s crozier. At a distant second was Scott Barker (XI Nebraska) with 24 votes (15%); followed by Robert Wright (X Atlanta) with 19 votes (12%); Daniel Gutierrez with 17 votes (11%); DeDe Duncan-Probe with nine votes (6%).
Bishops Duncan-Probe, Gutierrez and Wright all check the various politically correct diversity boxes — gender, ethnicity, and race respectively.
However, none of the lesbian or gay bishops — Bonnie Perry (XI Michigan); Mary Glasspool (New York-assisting); Thomas Brown (X Maine); and Deon Johnson (XI Missouri) — threw their miters in the ring this go around. The next time the Episcopal Church is slated to elect another Presiding Bishop is at the 84th General Convention in 2033. Date and place to be announced.
At the age of 49, Presiding Bishop-elect Rowe will be the youngest top bishop in Episcopal Church history. Church annals apparently also show that at 32 he was the youngest bishop to be consecrated in 2007, as well as the youngest Episcopal priest to be ordained in 2000 at the tender age of 25.
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