Proposed Timeline for Search & Transition

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2026

January-March

• Profile and application development, discernment process development

March

• Diocesan Profile published, application period opens (about 1 month)

April

• Application period ends

April-August

• Applicant/Nominee discernment by Search Committee, background and ministry checks

• Discernment Retreat with semi-finalists and Search Committee

• Transition Committee and Convention Planning Committee plan for Electing Convention

• Transition Committee prepares introduction of slate to diocese, plans Meet and Greets

August

• Search Committee submits slate to Standing Committee

• Standing Committee announces slate, petition period opens

• Petition period ends

September

• Standing Committee announces final slate

September or October

• Nominees visit the diocese as participants in Meet and Greets

October 23-24, 224th Diocesan Convention and Electing Convention

• Consent period begins

2027

March 6, Ordination of the 11th Bishop of New Hampshire