Episcopal Diocese of Nevada

A lovely and touching service for the challenges before us

At 3:08 pm today May 1 2022, Elizabeth Gardner, Bishop of Nevada , has been seated on her cathedral.

At 12:09 pm Pt today March 5 2022 Presiding Bishop Micheal Curry announces The Right Reverend Elizabeth Bonforte Gardner as the new Bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of Nevada. Welcome with great joy and applause Bishop Elizabeth!

Meet the next Episcopal bishop of Nevada The Episcopal Church will consecrate a new bishop for Nevada this weekend, filling a role that has been vacant since 2018.

Friends in Christ,

The Rev. Elizabeth Bonforte Gardner was elected as the eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada on October 8, 2021.

Rev. Gardner was selected from a slate of four candidates after a discernment process spanning almost two years. Beginning with a list of interested applicants, a diocesan search committee reviewed and selected the candidates to put before the church. The balloting process required a 50-percent-plus-one vote occurring simultaneously from the two voting bodies. The voting members are lay delegates from each parish in the state and voting clergy. Rev. Gardner was selected on the fourth ballot.

“This discernment brought four wonderful, gifted candidates," said the Rt. Rev. Jim Waggoner, Assisting Bishop to the Diocese of Nevada. “Through meditation and prayer, our voting clergy and delegates selected the person who will serve the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada in her many-faceted needs and potential. We welcome Rev. Gardner and look forward to having them as part our church family.”

Rev. Gardner, currently Rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Va., founded Potomac Episcopal, a collaboration of four churches that banded together during the pandemic to expand pastoral and missional work in the community.

Here are the results of the second ballot.

Results from our third ballot

Balloting has begun for the XI Bishop of Nevada Results of the first ballot is shown below

This past Thursday evening, July 15th, the Bishop Candidates visited Saint Peter's Episcopal Church in Carson City for a question-and-answer session. Thanks to the tech gurus at St. Peter's, the video of that is now available - at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-9TZSNhdw. This is the final video of the Silver State Stride tour to be published.

Diocese of Nevada Silver State Stride at St. Peter's Episcopal Church The candidates stopped at St. Peter's on the evening of July 15, 2021 for dinner, fellowship and a Q&A .

On Friday morning July 16th, 2021, the Bishop Candidates visited Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Reno.

To see the entire event, beautifully recorded and produced, please visit the Cathedral's YouTube page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhO0w1v_Lo

Visit to Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Reno On July 16, 2021, four finalists for Bishop visited Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Reno, NV. Trinity hosted a breakfast, Q&A session, and Dean Stomski provided...

Our breakfast at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral has started. Special thanks to Dean William, Sandi, and Jeannie for a lovely fest. Q-and-A session to follow around 9:45 or 10

Traveling from Ely to Elko Wednesday morning July 14, ran into a slight delay