A RELEASE TO
THE CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
AND ECUMENICAL AFFILIATES
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR SENIOR BISHOP THOMAS L. HOYT, JR.
The Homegoing Celebration for Senior Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr., will be Wednesday, November 6, 2013, at 11:00 A.M. at the Cramton Auditorium, Howard University Campus, 2455 Sixth Street, N.W., Washington D.C. Viewing will be at the Auditorium from 9:00 A.M. until time of service.
The family has also planned an abbreviated Memorial Service on Monday, November 11, 2013, at the West Side Community C.M.E. Church, 2114 Martin Luther King Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, at 11:00 A.M. Interment will follow at the Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.
Hotel arrangements can be made for those attending the Washington service with the following hotels: Homewood Suites, $169.00 per night plus tax, 8728 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Maryland (301-565-0005); Doubletree Hotel, 8727 Colesville Road, Silver Spring Maryland, $139.00 per night plus tax (301-589-5200); and Hampton Inn, 8728 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Maryland (301-588-5887).
Reese/Bacon Funeral Home is entrusted with arrangements. The funeral home address is 3447 14th Street, N.W., Washington D.C. 20010. Telephone for the funeral home is 202-286-4384; fax is 202-483-0156.
Mrs. Ocie Hoyt’s home address and telephone are 6524 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20012. The home telephone is 202-882-4916.
from The College of Bishops
Bishop Teresa E. Snorton, Chair
Bishop Lawrence Reddick, Secretary
205-515-7322
BISHOP PAUL A. G. STEWART, SR., NOW SENIOR BISHOP AND CEO OF
THE CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Upon the death of Bishop Hoyt on Sunday, October 27, 2013, Bishop Paul A. G. Stewart, Sr., who was named “Acting Senior Bishop” by the College of Bishops following Bishop Hoyt’s health crisis in Houston, Texas (Sept. 22, 2013), officially assumed the role of Senior Bishop and Chief Executive Officer of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Bishop Paul A. G. Stewart, Sr., continued:
The Senior Bishop is the bishop who is first in order of election of all bishops still in active service. Bishop Stewart was elected the 50th bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1998 General Conference in Birmingham, Alabama.
Bishop Stewart is presently presiding bishop of the Third Episcopal District, comprising the Michigan-Indiana, the Southeast Missouri and Illinois, and the Kansas-Missouri Regions. Upon his election in 1998, he was assigned to the Fifth Episcopal District (Regions in Alabama and Florida). In 2002 he was assigned to the Third Episcopal District.
He and his wife, Mrs. Earline Stewart, reside in Florissant, Missouri.
from The College of Bishops
Bishop Teresa E. Snorton, Chair
Bishop Lawrence Reddick, Secretary
205-515-7322
COMMITTEE ON EPISCOPACY OF THE 2010 GENERAL CONFERENCE
CALLED TO MEET NOVEMBER 6th IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
In accordance with ¶431 of The Book of Discipline, Revised 2010, of The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Senior Bishop Paul A. G. Stewart, Sr., is calling the Committee on Episcopacy to meet immediately following the funeral of Senior Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr., in Washington D.C. The meeting is being planned for the site of the funeral.
Committee members are urged to contact Wendy Casey at 704-345-3314 – immediately - to make travel arrangements. Members are also urged to contact the offices of their presiding bishops for further information, if needed.
from The College of Bishops
Bishop Teresa E. Snorton, Chair
Bishop Lawrence Reddick, Secretary
205-515-7322
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