October 26, 2007
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Stephen Lane was elected October 26 as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine. (http://www.diomaine.org).
Lane, 58, canon for deployment and ministry development in the Diocese of Rochester, was elected on the first ballot out of a field of three nominees. He received 140 votes of 220 cast in the lay order and 96 of 124 cast in the
clergy order. An election on that ballot required 111 in the lay order and 63 in the clergy order.
The election took place during the 188th annual diocesan convention at the Bangor Civic Center in Bangor, Maine.
Lane will serve with diocesan Bishop Chilton R. Knudsen until her planned retirement in 2008 and will then succeed her as the ninth bishop of Maine.
