[Diocese of Alabama] The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama has announced a slate of two candidates to stand for election as the diocese’s 13th bishop: the Rev. Candice B. Frazer, rector of the Church of the Ascension in Montgomery, and the Very Rev. Richard Lawson, dean and rector of St. John’s Cathedral in Denver, Colorado.
Frazer has served as rector of the Church of the Ascension since 2018 and has held numerous diocesan leadership roles, including president of the Standing Committee, dean of the Montgomery Convocation and deputy to General Convention. Lawson has served as dean and rector of St. John’s Cathedral since 2017 and previously served parishes in Memphis, Tennessee, and Decatur, Alabama, and has longstanding ties to the Diocese of Alabama and Camp McDowell.
A meeting with both candidates will be held Jan. 3 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Mountain Brook. The electing convention will take place Jan. 24 at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham.
More information is available at www.dioala.org.