The elections was extremely quick and efficient in light of some of the other scheduling items at the 46th Session of the General Conference.
The Consecration of Bishops/Closing Worship Service did not get started until nearly 1 p.m.
By the time the four new Bishops had been consercrated, following a powerful yet succinct sermon by Bishop Adams, and communion serive, it was 1:30 a.m. and the assingments had yet to be rea.
The Episcopal Committee brought the assignments to the Conference eiher a little before or after 2 a.m.
Most people hung in until the bitter end. They, to aperson,all were curious as to who they would have as a Bishop for a least the next four years.
Below are the assignments as they were given last night at the nocturnal close of the General Conference.
Below are the assigments as I saw and heard them.
1st Episcopal District --- Donald George Kenneth Ming
2nd Episcopal District --- Bishop Vinton Randolph Anerson
3rd Episcopal District --- Bishop Robert Vaughn Webster
4th Episcopal District --- Bishop Philip R. Cousin
5th Episcopal District --- Bishop John Richard Bryant
6th Episcopal District --- Bishop Frank Curtis Cummings
7th Episcopal District --- Bishop Henry Allen Belin
8th Episcopal District --- Bishop Cornal Garnett Henning
9th Episcopal District --- Bishop Zedekiah Lazett Grady
10th Episcopal District --- Bishop McKinley Young
11th Episcopal District --- Bishop John Hurst Adams
12th Episcopal District --- Bishop Richard Allen Chappelle, Sr.
13th Episcopal District --- Bishop Fredrick Hilborn Talbot
14th Episcopal District --- Bishop Richard Franklin Norris
15th Episcopal District --- Bishop Gregory Ingram
16th Episcopal District --- Bishop William Philip DeVeaux, Sr.
17th Episcopal District --- Bishop Preston Williams
18th Episcopal District --- Bishop Vashti McKenzie
19th Episcopal District --- Bishop Adam Jefferson Richardson, Jr.
Ecumenical Officer --- Bishop Theodore Larry Kirkland
