New Bishops in LA
Abstract: Diane Bruce and Mary Glasspool are consecrated to serve as bishops suffragan in Los Angeles.
On May 15, in a 3-hour service at the Long Beach Arena, Diane Jardine Bruce (pictured left) and Mary Douglas Glasspool (pictured below right) were consecrated bishops suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
They are the Episcopal Church's 16th and 17th female bishops. Bruce is the first woman to be elected bishop in the Los Angeles diocese. Glasspool, elected Dec. 5, a day after Bruce, is the diocese's first (and the Episcopal Church's second) gay, partnered bishop.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori served as chief consecrator in the multi-lingual Spanish, Korean, Tagalog and English service. Retired Massachusetts suffragan bishop Barbara Harris, who in 1988 became the first woman bishop in the Episcopal Church and worldwide Anglican Communion, served as one of seven co-consecrating bishops.
Other co-consecrating bishops included retired Los Angeles bishop Frederick H. Borsch, Lawrence Provenzano of Long Island, and Ohio bishop Mark Hollingsworth Jr. New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson, who in 2003 became the first openly gay, partnered bishop in the Episcopal Church, was among the bishops attending the service.
Other guests included President of the House of Deputies Bonnie Anderson and ELCA Bishops Dean Nelson of the Southwest California Synod and Bishop Murray D. Finck of the Pacifica Synod.
