South Carolina Episcopalians get bishop

Posted on January 28, 2008 
Filed under News

Mark LawrenceJust call him Bishop Lawrence, finally.

Mark Joseph Lawrence endured two elections in a year’s span and waited patiently for confirmation that he would be the 14th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina. His election was approved in October, and on Saturday, he was consecrated in a liturgical ceremony at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul in downtown Charleston. …

Story from the Charleston Post and Courier.

See also this interview on Stand Firm, in March 2007, after the first election had been declared ‘null and void’ by the Presiding Bishop.