Assistant bishop to lead worship at St. Paul's
From Staff Reportsreligion@newnan.com
Keith B. Whitmore will be leading worship at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on July 1.
Whitmore, the assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, will be at the 9:30 a.m. services. He will also hold an adult forum to discuss and preview the upcoming General Convention.
Whitmore, former bishop of the Diocese of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, became the Diocese of Atlanta’s assistant bishop on April 15, 2008.
He serves on the Episcopal Church’s Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance and is president of Affirming Anglican Catholicism. He serves as a trustee for the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.
He was ordained bishop of Eau Claire April 10, 1999. A Wisconsin native, Whitmore is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Nashotah House, Nashotah, Wis.
Whitmore and his wife, Suzie, have been married more than 40 years. They have two grown children.
St. Paul’s is modifying its schedule for the summer. Services usually are held at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. each Sunday.
Beginning July 1 and continuing through Aug. 12, St. Paul’s will have only one service on Sunday morning – at 9:30.
