Jurisdiction elects Kristin Stoneking as bishop

Note: Bishop Stoneking has been appointed to the Mountain Sky Conference effective September 1st.  

The Rev. Dr. Kristin Stoneking, United Methodist studies professor at the Pacific School of Religion, has been elected a bishop by The United Methodist Church’s Western Jurisdiction.

She is the denomination’s third openly gay and married bishop — all elected in the Western Jurisdiction.

Delegates elected Stoneking on July 12 at the jurisdiction’s meeting at the Centennial Hotel in Spokane on the 11th ballot. She received 65 votes out of 94 valid ballots cast. She needed 63 to be elected. Western Jurisdiction rules require that candidates receive at least two-thirds of valid ballots to be elected.

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