Cathedral of St. Luke
Portland, Maine
May 3, 2008

Bishop Knudsen signs Bishop Lane's consecration certificate

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori signs the certificate as Bishop Harold Hopkins, Mainer and retired bishop of North Dakota, waits his turn.

Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire and Bishop-Elect Lane, who served together as Canons to the Ordinary in their pre-bishop lives,  share a joke before the service

The choir of St. Lukes begins to process through the Bishop's garden.

Members from across the Diocese of Maine wait for the cathedral doors to open at 10 a.m.

 ...and around the corner down State Street.

The procession begins.

 Bishop Jack McKelvey of the Diocese of Rochester, with whom Bishop Lane served as Canon to the Ordinary, uses the sermon as a time to trade hats with Bishop Lane.  Bishop McKelvey will retire at the end of May.

The Presiding Bishop prepares for the consecration.

Bishop Lane kneels as he is prayed over.

Nineteen bishops of the Episcopal Church draw near to lay hands on the newest (and 1028th) Bishop of the Church.

The congregation greets - with a beaming Gwyneth Bohr, retired priest from Bethel in the foreground -  our new Bishop with great enthusiasm.

Bishop Lane joined by the Co-Consecrating Bishops: Jack McKelvey, Bishop of Rochester; Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire; James Curry, Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut; Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church; and Chilton Knudsen, Bishop of Maine.