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The Rio Grande Elects PB’s Canon

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The Rev. Canon Michael Buerkel Hunn, canon to Presiding Bishop Michael Curry for ministry within the Episcopal Church, has been elected as 10th Bishop of the Rio Grande. Hunn won on the third ballot.

The other two nominees were the Rev. Canon Lucinda Ashby, canon to the ordinary in the Diocese of Idaho, and the Rev. Simon Charles Justice, rector of Church of the Good Samaritan, Corvallis, Oregon. Justice withdrew from the election after the second ballot.

The diocese has scheduled a consecration service for Nov. 3.

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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