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South Dakota Adds 2 Nominees

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The Diocese of South Dakota has added two nominees in the search for its 11th bishop.

The Rev. John Floberg is rector of St. James, St. Luke’s, and Church of the Cross on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, N.D.

The Rev. Robert Two Bulls Jr. is vicar of All Saints Indian Mission, Minneapolis, and missioner of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota’s Department of Indian Work and Multicultural Ministries.

They join the two nominees by the diocese’s search committee: the Rev. Jonathan Folts, rector of St. John’s Church, Essex, Conn., and the Rev. Mark Story, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Edmond, Okla.

More details about the four nominees are available on the diocese’s bishop-search website.

Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.

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