Our own Wayne Floyd will be facilitating a seminar on Faith and Everyday Leadership: Reinventing the 21st Century Church from September 9, 2008 to September 11, 2008 at Roslyn Retreat Center in Richmond, Virginia. This retreat introduces a new curriculum developed by the Alban Institute. It will be a gathering of diverse participants in the emerging twenty-first-century church who share the desire to live an integrated life, linking their faith more fully with the demands of everyday leadership in their homes, businesses and congregations.

A users' guide for Episcopalians

A suffragan bishop is an assisting bishop who does not automatically succeed a diocesan bishop. A suffragan bishop may be elected bishop or bishop coadjutor. A diocese may elect a suffragan bishop, but no diocese may have more than two suffragan bishops except with the special consent of a General Convention.

A users' guide for Episcopalians

Diocesan bishops may be succeeded by bishops-coadjutor upon resignation of diocesan jurisdiction A bishop coadjutor is an assistant bishop with the right of succession upon the resignation of the diocesan bishop. Before a bishop coadjutor is elected, the diocesan bishop must consent to such an election and state the duties which will be assigned to the bishop coadjutor when duly ordained and consecrated.

A users' guide for Episcopalians 

One of the three orders of ordained ministers in the church, bishops are charged with the apostolic work of leading, supervising, and uniting the church. Bishops stand in the apostolic succession, maintaining continuity in the present with the ministry of the Apostles. Diocesan bishops hold jurisdiction in their dioceses, with particular responsibility for the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the church.