THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
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DATE: Sunday, June 25, 1995                  TAG: 9506250096
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                         LENGTH: Short :   32 lines

BURKE CHURCH RECTOR INSTALLED AS BISHOP FOR VIRGINIA DIOCESE

Flanked by family members and more than 1,000 worshipers, the Rev. David Colin Jones was installed Saturday as a suffragan bishop for the Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church.

Jones, 52, who had been the rector at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Burke since 1978, joined the Rt. Rev. F. Clayton Matthews as one of two assistant bishops, the second-highest position in the diocese.

A native of Youngstown, Ohio, who attended West Virginia University and the Virginia Theological Seminary, Jones was elevated to the post during a two-hour ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral.

Jones, who was elected to the post in January, was joined by his wife and two grown children, but did not preach.

As a suffragan bishop, Jones will assist Bishop Peter James Lee in running the 81,000-member diocese.

The diocese, the third-largest in the country behind Massachusetts and Connecticut, has 186 congregations in 38 counties and several cities, including Richmond, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg and Alexandria.

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