Wallace Elected Bishop of Spokane
Episcopal News Service. September 28, 1978 [78281]
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A parish priest from Montana, the Rev. Leigh Allen Wallace, Jr., has been elected sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane. He will succeed the Rt. Rev. John R. Wyatt after receiving the required canonical consents.
Fr. Wallace, 51, was elected on the seventh ballot of the diocesan convention held Sept. 15 and 16. He was one of seven people who had been nominated through the official screening process. Two others were nominated from the floor.
A native of Oklahoma, he holds his undergraduate degree from the University of Montana and his theological degree from the Virginia Theological Seminary. He has been rector of Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, Missoula, Mont., since 1971. He was ordained priest in 1962 and has served a number of congregations in Montana.
Bishop Wyatt has been diocesan bishop of Spokane since May, 1967. He is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate of Lehigh University and the General Seminary. He was ordained priest in 1939 and served parishes and diocesan posts on both coasts before accepting election to the episcopate.