Bishop

On June 15, 2003, HOWARD G.; beloved husband of the late Ruth E. Bishop (nee Biscoe); devoted father of Sally B. Fronk and her husband Gordon D. Fronk; dear grandfather of Gordon L. Fronk, Michael H. Fronk and Ming-Shi Du; great-grandfather of Haley and Abigail Fronk. A funeral service will be held Tuesday 11 A. M at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook) . Interment Green Mount Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made St. Paul's School for Boys, 11152 Falls Road, Brooklandville, MD 21022.

On December 1, 2009, BISHOP JOSCELYN A. GOODALL. Survived by sons Philmore, Paul and Hubert Goodall, daughters Genieve Goodall and Salomie Goodall-Taylor, son-in-law Kuesland Taylor; brothers Donald Goodall of MA; Errol Lewis of FL., Clifton and Patrick Goodall both of JA., Lloyd Goodall of Canada, sisters; Dorothy Barnette of NY, Beverly Goodall of N.J, Hyacinth Goodall of N.Y. and Cynthia Goodall of FL., grandchildren Oreen and Philip Taylor, Andrew,...

Bishop Willard E. Saunders Sr., pastor of Christ Temple Apostolic Cathedral in South Baltimore and head of the District of Columbia, Delaware and Maryland Council of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, died Aug. 10 of cancer at his home in Northwest Baltimore. He was 69.Bishop Saunders was also a member of the Executive Board of Bishops of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World.Since 1954, he had headed the Cherry Hill congregation, which was known as the Christ Temple Apostolic Church until a new building was opened May 8. He had built much of the original church building at 827 Cherry Hill Road himself.

EASTON -- A 48-year-old rector from Blacksburg, Va., was elected the ninth bishop of the 124-year-old Episcopal Diocese of Easton.The Rev. Martin G. Townsend, of Christ Church in Blacksburg, was chosen to succeed the Right Rev. Elliott L. Sorge, 63, as bishop for all nine counties of the Eastern Shore. Father Townsend was elected by vote of clergy and laymen from 41 Shore parishes in a Special Convention of the Diocese held at Trinity Cathedral in Easton Saturday.Father Townsend finished first among six candidates in a series of three ballots.

"Jack is neither the devil incarnate nor Christ incarnate." The Rev. Robert W. Ihloff was talking about Bishop John Shelby Spong of Newark, N.J.Father Ihloff, 54, is the affable, energetic, fluent priest of Bishop Spong's diocese who was elected by Maryland Episcopalians May 20 to lead them into the 21st century.Assuming that a majority of the other dioceses ratify his selection as expected, he will be elevated to his new post in mid-October by Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning at the National Episcopal Cathedral in Washington.

With mostly soft and a few hard questions, Maryland Episcopalians gently probed the beliefs and personalities of their five nominees for bishop the past two days, with the result that some theological differences among the candidates have emerged.Only one, the Very Rev. Gustave J. Weltsek Jr., dean of St. John's Cathedral in Jacksonville, Fla., waded into controversy without being pushed at an open forum Saturday night in Severna Park.Volunteering that he wanted the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland to know precisely where he stood concerning a question on people's minds even if it weren't being asked -- whether he favors ordaining gays and lesbians -- Dean Weltsek said, "I feel very strongly about the place of the General Convention in the life of the church."

Bishop P. Francis Murphy, auxiliary bishop for Baltimore, is now wearing a less comfortable label -- dissenter. But contrary to much popular thinking, dissenters have an important place in the rich history of the Roman Catholic Church.After all, no institution could survive for two millenniums in lock-step agreement, particularly one that treasures its presence and influence around the globe.But viewed in light of current pressures for Catholics to conform, Bishop Murphy's article in the September 25 issue of Commonweal magazine is bound to make him a hero to some Catholics and a heretic to others.

Eleanor "Brice" Bramman Bishop, a longtime Baltimore teacher, died Sept. 30 of complications from diabetes at the Broadmead nursing home in Cockeysville. She was 80. Born Eleanor Black and raised in Roland Park, Mrs. Bishop attended Roland Park Country School and Western High School, graduating in 1939. She earned a degree in chemistry from her mother's alma mater, Goucher College, in 1943. Mrs. Bishop went on to teach math and science at various schools, including the Baltimore County Home and Hospital School, where she spent nearly two decades before retiring in 1990.

Funeral services were scheduled today and tomorrow for two men killed in a shooting at Fox Chevrolet in Woodlawn.Services for William Lewis Bishop, 46, general manager of Fox Chevrolet's five-car dealerships, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Zion Lutheran Church in the Frederick County community of Middletown.Services for Robert Bruce Daughton, 38, a mechanic at Fox, were being held today at the Levinson funeral establishment on Reisterstown Road.Mr. Bishop and Mr. Daughton died Friday after they and a co-worker were shot by a former employee of the business.

The Episcopal bishop of Easton has told an elderly Maryland priest he may no longer preach or perform the sacraments because he blessed the union of two homosexual men in an Eastern Shore ceremony that had all the trappings of a wedding.The deposed priest, the Rev. John K. Mount, said yesterday that he took part in the May 28 ceremony -- specifically praying for God's strength and comfort for the two gay men -- largely out of compassion because both are dying of AIDS.He did not perform a "marriage" as such, the priest said, although the two men considered their vows of faithfulness to each other to be the equivalent of a marriage.