Loading...The Rt. Rev. C. Wallis Ohl, retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwest Texas, is the candidate for the next provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth.
Delegates to the 27th Annual Diocesan Convention November 13 and 14 will vote to elect Ohl, approve changes in the diocesan constitution and canons, act on resolutions, approve a budget, and elect people to fill seats on various governing bodies of the diocese.
Ohl will succeed the Rt. Rev. Edwin F. [Ted] Gulick Jr., who has served as provisional bishop since his election at the February 7 2009 Special Meeting of the Diocesan Convention. Gulick also is the bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky.
Ohl, who retired from Northwest Texas on January 1, 2009 and lives in Norman, Oklahoma, was selected by the Standing Committee in consultation with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. He will preach at All Saints Episcopal Church, 5001 Crestline Drive, Fort Worth, 76107, on Sunday, November 1, at the 9 and 11:15 AM services. He also will be at a reception at St. Christopher Episcopal Church, 3550 Southwest Loop 820, Fort Worth, TX 76133 at 6 PM on Friday November 13.
Bishop Ohl, 66, was elected bishop of Northwest Texas in February 1997. At that time he was rector of St. Michael the Archangel in Colorado Springs, CO. He graduated with a BA in English Literature from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, and got his Masters of Divinity from Nashotah House in Wisconsin in 1974. He married Sheila Kay Byrd in 1964. They have three children and seven grandchildren.
More information on Bishop Ohl can be found at //episcopaldiocesefortworth.org/ <//episcopaldiocesefortworth.org/>
The convention will convene at 7 PM on Friday November 13 in the Family Life Center at St. Christopher. It will reconvene Saturday November 14 at 11 AM at All Saints Episcopal School, 9700 Saints Circle, Fort Worth, TX, 76108. The opening Eucharist will be at 9 AM in the All Saints School Chapel. Bishop Gulick will celebrate and preach.
