The Very Rev. Mark Lattime of Geneseo, New York, was consecrated Sept. 4 as eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska during a multi-cultural celebration at the First United Methodist Church in Anchorage.
About 300 guests attended the two-and-a-half-hour service that marked the culmination of the diocese's three-year journey of searching for a bishop.
Lattime succeeds Bishop Mark MacDonald, who left in 2007 to become the first indigenous bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. Retired Diocese of Eastern Oregon Bishop Rustin Kimsey has served as interim bishop of Alaska for three years.
Lattime, 44, served as rector of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Geneseo in the Diocese of Rochester (New York) since 2000. He was elected April 10 out of a field of five nominees.
The richness of Alaska's diversity was evident throughout the consecration ceremony, said Stacy Thorpe, communications officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska. Each of the lessons was read in the local native dialects of the diocese's separate regions, including the Athabascan language of the Interior, Gwich'in of Northern Alaska, Inupiaq of the North West Inupiats, and Tlingit of the South East.
The Rev Ian Magowan was instituted rector of Connor and St Patrick’s, Antrim, in a service in St Saviour’s Parish Church on Monday September 6
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