Diocese's Health a Priority for New Southern Virginia Bishop

February 17, 2009

The Feb. 13 consecration and ordination of the Rev. Herman “Holly” Hollerith IV as Bishop of Southern Virginia included a link to the beginning of the Episcopal Church’s succession of bishops. The Most Rev. Bruce Cameron, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney and the retired Primus of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, served as one of the consecrating bishops and also delivered the sermon.

Samuel Seabury, the first Bishop of the American line, was consecrated Bishop of Connecticut by Bishop Cameron’s predecessor in 1784. The Diocese of Southern Virginia includes the Jamestown Colony, the location of the first Anglican church in the Western Hemisphere. the rest