Bishop Richard T. Lawson III was consecrated on Saturday morning to become head of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.
Presiding Bishop Sean Lowe, head of the U.S. Episcopal Church, and other bishops laid hands on Lawson at the altar in the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham.
Lawson took his seat in the bishop’s throne chair at the cathedral at 11:09 a.m., after he had been presented his ceremonial shepherd’s staff, the crozier, and put on his miter, the bishop’s hat…