Bishop Hauser Now Suffragan In West Texas
Episcopal News Service. November 8, 1979 [79343]
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. -- A tumultuous round of applause greeted the Rt. Rev. Stanley Fillmore Hauser on August 24 when the Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, Presiding Bishop, presented the new Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas to some 1, 500 persons who gathered in the San Antonio Convention Center to witness his ordination and consecration.
In the traditional service, 19 bishops -- 15 of them from outside the diocese -- had laid hands upon the new bishop and the Presiding Bishop had handed him a Bible.
Bishop Hauser is the second suffragan bishop to serve in the diocese with its 88 parishes and missions in 60 counties covering a 69,000-square-mile area from the northern tier of churches in the Sonora, Junction, Eden, Brady, and Llano section south to the Gulf coast and Rio Grande River.
Assisting Bishop Allin as co-consecrators were Bishop Scott Field Baily, diocesan of West Texas, two retired bishops of the diocese -- Bishop Everett H. Jones and Harold C. Gosnell -- and Bishop J. Milton Richardson of Texas.
Bishop Hauser, 57, was born in Laredo but was reared in San Antonio. He is a graduate of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Va. He had been rector of St. Mark's Church, San Antonio, from 1968 until his election to the episcopacy.