CRESTVIEW — The Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast's bishop-elect will visit Northwest Florida on Sunday.
The Rev. James Russell Kendrick will be at The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany's 10 a.m. service. Epiphany is located at 424 Garden St., off Highway 85 behind the Okaloosa County Teachers Federal Credit Union.
Kendrick will be ordained and consecrated 2 p.m. Saturday, July 25 in the Mobile Civic Center Expo Hall in Mobile, Ala.
The Fort Walton Beach native earned a Bachelor of Arts in architecture and marketing from Auburn University. In 1995, he received a Master of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. He and his wife, Robin, have two children, Aaron and Hannah.
Kendrick — who served as rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Ala., from 2007-2015 — was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast on Feb. 21, 2015.
The Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast includes 62 churches and about 20,000 members in southern Alabama and the Florida panhandle.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Episcopal bishop-elect to visit Crestview area on Sunday