Robert Price consecrated as Dallas’ bishop coadjutor
The Rt. Rev. Robert Price greets worshipers at the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Texas, after a Sept. 6 service in which he was ordained and consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. Photo: Kimberley Durnan Davis
[Episcopal News Service] Robert P. Price was consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas on Sept. 6 in a service at the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Texas.
Price was serving as dean of St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Dallas when he was elected on the second ballot on May 3.
Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe was the chief consecrator for the service, and the preacher was Tennessee Bishop John Bauerschmidt.
The diocese said in advance of the service that more than 30 bishops were to attend, including the secretary general of the Anglican Communion, the Rt. Rev. Anthony Poggo, and the Rt. Rev. Felix Annancy, bishop of the Diocese of Koforidua in Ghana.
In his sermon, Bauerschmidt emphasized the Gospel reading for the occasion, John 20:19-23, in which Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit upon his disciples who, out of fear, were gathered behind locked doors. The central prayer of the service to ordain and consecrate Price as a bishop, Bauerschmidt said, “will invoke upon him … the power of the father’s princely spirit, the same spirit bestowed by Christ himself upon his apostles.”
Price will serve as coadjutor until Dallas Bishop George Sumner retires, at which time Price will take office as the diocesan bishop.
