The United Methodist studies professor at the Pacific School of Religion has been elected a bishop by The United Methodist Church’s Western Jurisdiction. She is the denomination’s third openly gay and married bishop.
Many of the denomination’s U.S. jurisdictional conferences, meeting this week across the country, have realigned their episcopal area boundaries to allow for a smaller number of bishops, and some are planning to share bishops across jurisdictional lines.
See vote totals as the Western Jurisdiction votes to elect two bishops. It is the only U.S. jurisdiction holding episcopal elections during this week’s jurisdictional conferences.
