The Diocese of South Carolina will begin the process to select our new bishop with a scheduled
retreat of the Nominating and Standing Committees as planned on March 29-30. At our convention, in
anticipation of this eventuality, we scheduled the election for a "date certain" to be decided by
Bishop Salmon and the Standing Committee. We wish, as in all things, to take the high moral ground,
and will take into serious consideration, the House of Bishops "request" to delay the actual
election. You may take as a certain fact, however, that Bishop Matthew's statement as reported that
we would time our election to have the consents coincide with General Convention is without any
basis in fact whatsoever.

--The Rev. M. Dow Sanderson, Chairman of the Standing Committee