Biography for The Rev. Canon Stephen Taylor Lane

The Rev. Canon Stephen Lane was elected Bishop-Coadjutor by the 67 congregations of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine on October 26, 2007. Prior to beginning his work in Maine on April 1, 2008, Lane served as Canon for Deployment and Ministry Development in the Diocese of Rochester, New York, where he has responsibilities for formation, ordination and deployment of clergy, as well as social justice issues and the Safe Church training program. 

Ordained in 1978, Lane has served the Church in upstate New York in a number of congregations and diocesan staff roles.  In addition, he served for six years as a member of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church.  He has a deep appreciation of the challenges facing a church that is becoming a church of smaller congregations with multicultural opportunities.  He received his BA from the University of Rochester, New York, and a Master of Divinity from Colgate-Rochester, Bexley Hall, Crozer Seminaries, also in Rochester

For more information about Bishop-Elect Lane, please visit http://www.bishopofmaine.org/lane.shtml

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