Episcopal members to meet

Delegates from Episcopal churches throughout the state will gather Friday in Las Vegas for the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada's annual convention.

One item on the agenda will be choosing a successor to the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, who last year became presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church. Jefferts Schori had served as Nevada's bishop for almost six years.

The candidates for election as Nevada's 10th Episcopal bishop are the Rev. Susan Burns, rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Bethesda, Md.; the Rev. Dr. Cathy L. Deats, rector of St. James Church, Hackettstown, N.J.; the Very Rev. Dan Thomas Edwards, rector of St. Francis Church, Macon, Ga.; the Rev. Dr. Charles Eric Funston, rector of St. Paul's Church, Medina, Ohio, and former assistant rector of Christ Church in Las Vegas; the Rev. Albert John Keeney, rector of St. John's Church, Canandaigua, N.Y.; and the Rev. Jeffrey D. Paul, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Carson City.

The Nevada Episcopal diocese consists of about 6,000 members in 34 congregations throughout Nevada and in Bullhead City, Ariz.

The convention runs through Sunday at the South Point.