Episcopal Church to elect Maine bishop Friday
October 24, 2007

BANGOR, Maine - Representatives of Maine's 17,000 Episcopalians will elect a bishop on Friday from among three candidates for the post.

At the church's annual convention in Bangor, clergy and lay representatives of the church's membership will choose a successor to the Right Rev. Chilton Knudsen, who will retire as bishop of the Maine Diocese in July. Knudsen was the first female Episcopal bishop in Maine.

The three candidates include the Rev. Linda Grenz, assisting priest at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City; the Rev. Debra Kissinger, who oversees children's ministries for the Bethlehem, Pa., Diocese; and the Rev. Canon Stephen Lane, who is in charge of clerical assignments and social justice issues in the Diocese of Rochester, N.Y. the rest