WESTERN NEW YORK: Episcopal Bishop Spun Role as Victim in Berkeley/Yale Scandal
WESTERN NEW YORK: New Episcopal Bishop Spun Role as Victim in Walkabout over Berkeley/Yale Scandal
By David W. Virtue and Mary Ann Mueller
www.virtueonline.org
December 5, 2010
The Rev. R. William Franklin, who had been a priest for just five years in a Philadelphia parish before being elected Bishop of Western New York was forced to resign in December of 2001 after a Yale-initiated audit showed he had misappropriated Berkeley funds.
Franklin, now 63, was Dean of Berkeley Divinity School, an Episcopal seminary affiliated with Yale Divinity School at that time. He is presently senior associate priest at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He was recently elected the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Western New York on the seventh ballot. He edged out the Rev. Barbara J. Price, rector of St. Peter's Church in Amherst and the only local candidate in the four-person race in a tally in St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral.
If he is confirmed he is scheduled for consecration on April 30, 2011, in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By David W. Virtue and Mary Ann Mueller
www.virtueonline.org
December 5, 2010
The Rev. R. William Franklin, who had been a priest for just five years in a Philadelphia parish before being elected Bishop of Western New York was forced to resign in December of 2001 after a Yale-initiated audit showed he had misappropriated Berkeley funds.Franklin, now 63, was Dean of Berkeley Divinity School, an Episcopal seminary affiliated with Yale Divinity School at that time. He is presently senior associate priest at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He was recently elected the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Western New York on the seventh ballot. He edged out the Rev. Barbara J. Price, rector of St. Peter's Church in Amherst and the only local candidate in the four-person race in a tally in St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral.
If he is confirmed he is scheduled for consecration on April 30, 2011, in the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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