Dean Werner: Reform PB Election Process
03/08/2006

The Episcopal Church spends too much money searching for and installing its Presiding Bishop, according to the president of the House of Deputies, who said he will urge the House of Bishops to change the process.

Expenses for the Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop exceeded $200,000 this triennium, “and that is not a good use of our resources,” the Very Rev. George Werner told members of Executive Council on March 6.

Dean Werner proposed that when the Episcopal Church next searches for a Presiding Bishop, in 2015, it should abolish the nominating committee’s screening duties and allow open nominations. The rest at The Living Church