Virginia Episcopalian Magazine Spring 2013 Issue | Page 14

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Southwestern Virginia Elects
Mark Bourlakas as Bishop
The Very Rev. Mark Allen Bourlakas, dean of Christ Church
Cathedral in Louisville, Ky., has been elected as sixth bishop of
the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, pending the
required consents from a majority of bishops with jurisdiction
and standing committees of the Episcopal Church.

Bourlakas, 49, was elected March 9 out of a field of five
nominees. He was elected on the third ballot by the Electing
Council meeting at St. John’s, Roanoke.

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