By now you know that Bishop Sutton informed the Presiding Bishop that he suspected Bishop-Elect Cook was drunk at the couples dinner that the Presiding Bishop and Sutton attended with their spouses and Cookâ??s steady companion. Perhaps many a bishop-elect has over-inbibed, but the PB (or her office) and Sutton were both aware of Cookâ??s DUI conviction although neither seems to have been aware of the publicly available details of that conviction, or its disturbing nature.
Are there examples where information came to light that derailed the consecration of a bishop-elect? The internet wayback machine turns up this article in the Episcopal News Service from 2003:
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