Result of election of Bishop of Newark
The Reverend Mark Beckwith was elected the 10th Bishop of Newark at a Special Convention held on September 23, 2006, in the see city of Newark. His election came on the third ballot.
Bishop-elect Beckwith will be consecrated on January 27, 2007, at a service to be held at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, after the required consents from the Standing Committees and bishops with jurisdiction throughout the United States have been received.
Mark Beckwith has been Rector of All Saints Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, in the Diocese of Western Massachusetts, since 1993. He also served as Associate Rector of St. Peter’s, Morristown and Rector of Christ Church, Hackensack. Mark is a 1973 graduate of Amherst College, and a 1978 graduate of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. While in the Diocese of Newark, Mark was a co-founder of Morris Shelter, Inc. and a co-founder and first President of the Inter-Religious Fellowship of the Homeless in Bergen County.
Mark has been married to Marilyn Olson since 1982, and they are the parents of two recent college graduates: Christine and Paul.
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