News from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America June 5, 1996 Title: HOLLOWAY ELECTED BISHOP IN SOUTHERN OHIO The Rev. Callon W. Holloway Jr., 43, was elected to a six-year term as bishop of the Southern Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) on June 1. He is currently an assistant to Bishop Kenneth H. Sauer, whom he will succeed when Sauer retires on Sept. 1. Holloway received 304 votes on the fifth ballot cast during the synod's annual assembly at Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio. The Rev. Walter F. Taylor Jr., professor of New Testament, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, received 281 votes on the fifth ballot. The Rev. Larry A. Hoffsis, Epiphany Lutheran Church, Dayton, Ohio, was in consideration on the assembly's fourth ballot. Holloway is on the steering committee of the ELCA's Commission for Multicultural Ministries. He will be the church's only African-American bishop. Holloway is a graduate of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa., and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He was pastor of Westwood Lutheran Church, Dayton, Ohio, before joining the synod staff. Sauer was bishop of the synod since the ELCA was formed in 1988. He was first elected in 1973 as president of the Ohio Synod of the former Lutheran Church in America. Sauer chaired the ELCA Conference of Bishops and was president of the Ohio Council of Churches. [ELCA News and Information: 8765 W. Higgins Road, Chicago, IL 60631; phone 312/380-2963]