Election & Transition Committee

The Election & Transition Committee welcomes and hosts candidates to the diocese, providing opportunities for shared common discernment and learning, celebrating the resigning bishop diocesan, and organizing an electing convention and the ordination weekend events. This committee conducts much of the planning before the candidate slate is announced, at which stage it takes over from the Search & Nomination Committee. These members include:

Chairs

  • The Rev. Michele Bonner, Clergy Co-chair, Christ Church, Portsmouth

  • Mr. Michael Jewer, Lay Co-chair, St. Christopher’s, Hampstead

Lay

  • Ms. Kathryn Gray, St. Paul’s, Concord

  • Ms. Sheelagh Higginson, All Saints, Littleton

  • Mr. Mike Mortensen, Trinity, Meredith

Clergy 

  • The Rev. Teresa Gocha, Church of the Messiah, North Woodstock

  • The Rev. Stephen Rugg, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Ashland

Chaplain to the Committees

  • The Rt. Rev. Dorsey McConnell (retired)

Consultant to the Process

  • The Rev. Timothy Hodapp, Diocese of Connecticut

To send questions and input to the Transition Committee, please email: ecnhtransition@gmail.com.