Bishop ready to pass his pulpit
Albany Episcopal Diocese leader Daniel Herzog to retire next year
Albany Times-Union
By MARC PARRY, Staff writer
Wednesday, November 1, 2006

ALBANY -- Albany Episcopal Bishop Daniel Herzog announced this week that he plans to retire early next year, well short of when he is required to step down.

That means the 19-county diocese is on the cusp of concluding a long transition that began in March when clergy and lay deputies elected the Rev. William Love to succeed Herzog.

Herzog and his assistant, Suffragan Bishop Dave Bena, will retire on Jan. 31. Church rules mandate that Herzog, 65, retire within three years of Love's consecration, which took place in September. the rest