Conservative Bishop-Elect in Danger of Being Blocked by Episcopal Church
By The Associated Press
Wed, Mar. 07 2007

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Time is running out for the national Episcopal Church to approve the election of the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence, a conservative chosen locally in a landslide as the new bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina.

If not approved by Monday, canon law requires the diocese to hold a new election.

"This is very big. For the first time in at least 60 years, a bishop is in real danger of not getting consent," the Rev. Dr. Kendall Harmon, canon theologian for the diocese, wrote in an e-mail Saturday. the rest