Byron Rushing of the Diocese of Massachusetts, the current vice president, is completing his third term as well and cannot run again, so deputies will also elect his successor.Ĭutié opened the first forum by asking the candidates about the discernment that went into their decisions to become candidates for president and vice president.Īnderson responded that she declared her candidacy after prayer and discussions with others across the church. Gay Clark Jennings, is finishing up her third and final term and, according to term limits established by The Episcopal Church’s Canons, will step down at the end of General Convention. The deputies’ current president, the Rev. It still is possible for additional candidates to come forward, as long as they submitted applications to the General Convention Office by March 8 and agreed to a background check. The optional candidate forums hosted by the House of Deputies were open to candidates who signed up for the forums by May 31. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, Diocese of Olympia. The only candidate to come forward publicly for vice president is the Rev. Devon Anderson, Diocese of Minnesota Julia Ayala Harris, Diocese of Oklahoma Ryan Kusumoto, Diocese of Hawai’i, and the Very Rev.
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The five declared candidates are the Rev. The House of Deputies is scheduled to elect a new president and vice president when the 80 th General Convention convenes July 8-11 in Baltimore, Maryland. A second Zoom forum intended for deputies and alternates will be held at 2 p.m. Benedict’s Episcopal Church in Plantation, Florida. Four candidates for president and one candidate for vice president of the House of Deputies participated June 4 in an online forum, to discuss their interest in churchwide leadership and their visions for The Episcopal Church’s future. A video of the June 13 candidate forum is here. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts, declared his candidacy for House of Deputies president on June 3.
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Devon Anderson.Įditor’s note: An additional candidate, the Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, Ryan Kusumoto and the Rev. Albert Cutié, top left, moderates a forum June 4 with, clockwise, Julia Ayala Harris, the Very Rev.