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amendments and no extended debate.
Many had forecasted a less- than-dramatic and short national gathering. Instead, voting members opted not to give Mark S. Hanson a third six-year term as presiding bishop, turning to a new occupant in that office, Elizabeth A. Eaton,
bishop of the Northeastern Ohio Synod.
Wm Chris Boerger, outgoing bishop of the Northwest Washing- ton Synod, takes over the Office of the Secretary from fellow Seattle- area resident David D. Swartling. Boerger was selected in an election
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At the ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Pitts- burgh, Presiding Bishop-elect Elizabeth A. Eaton and her husband, Conrad Selnick, an Episcopal priest, greet participants shortly after her election Aug. 14.
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