Southern Ohio Suffragan Will Serve Pittsburgh Reorganizers

September 3, 2009

The Episcopal leaders who have reorganized a diocese in the Pittsburgh area have, upon the recommendation of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, nominated the Rt. Rev. Kenneth L. Price, Jr., Bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, to serve as their provisional Bishop.

Bishop Price is the only nominee on the ballot for the election, which is scheduled for October 17.

Bishop Price “understands his primary role as pastor, to help us to continue to reorganize and move forward,” said the Rev. Jim Simons, president of the Pittsburgh standing committee and rector of St. Michael’s of the Valley, Ligonier, Pa. “With his experience as a bishop and as the interim ecclesiastical authority in Southern Ohio, he knows what needs to be done.” the rest