Episcopal canon headed to South Carolina as bishop
A "commuting canon" in the Erie-based Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania is headed to South Carolina to become a bishop. The Rev. Ruth Woodliff-Stanley is canon for strategic change in the Episcopal Dioceses of Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania. The bishop for those partnered dioceses in Buffalo and Erie is the Right Rev. Sean Rowe. Woodliff-Stanley was elected this month as the 15th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina. After her Oct. 2 consecration, she will be the first female to serve as bishop in the more than 200-year history of the Charleston...