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The Right Reverend Michael Milliken-Assisting Bishop
The Right Reverend Michael P. Milliken was consecrated as the Fifth Bishop of the Diocese of Western Kansas on February 19, 2011, following his election in August of 2010. The Bishop was consecrated by The Most Reverend Kathrine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church at the time; The Right Reverend Dean Wolfe, Ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas; and The Right Reverend Vernon Strickland, Third Bishop of the Diocese of Western Kansas.
Michael P. Milliken was born March 13, 1947, in Lexington, Kentucky. Bishop Milliken originally dreamed of becoming a physician, but the Holy Spirit had other ideas and led him into the ordained ministry.
The Right Reverend Silvestre Romero - Assistant Bishop
The Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas is pleased to call the Rt. Rev. Silvestre Romero to ministry. Bishop Romero will serve as Missioner at St. Andrew’s, in Liberal.
Bishop Romero was Ordained to the diaconate in June of 1996 and priesthood in February 1997 in the Central American Diocese of Belize by his father Bishop Sylvester Romero Palma.
Bishop Romero has served in the Diocese of Spokane, the Diocese of El Camino Real and the Diocese of Massachusetts. He was fully involved at the national church level of The Episcopal Church. He was a member of the Executive Council, a General Convention delegate, on the Standing Commission for Domestic Mission and Evangelism, a member of the Council of Advice for Latino Ministry and a member of the Youth Ministry Council. He was also pressed into service as a Spanish-English translator at four Episcopal General Conventions and was the first Latino Chaplain to the House of Deputies in 2006.
In May of 2017, Bishop Romero was elected as Bishop Coadjutor for the Diocese of Guatemala and less than a year later he was installed as their Bishop.
Bishop Romero is married to his wife Thelma, and they have three children.
The Reverend Canon Cameron Randle - Canon to the Ordinary
Fr. Cameron will serve as Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese and as priest-in-charge at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Garden City.
Fr. Randle has been a priest for 14 years. Ordained to the diaconate in January 2009 and priesthood in September 2009, both in the Diocese of Los Angeles. After 25 years as a music executive in Nashville, Los Angeles and Austin, TX. He has served parishes in Hollywood, CA; Virginia Beach, VA; and on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Fr. Randle’s family is from Liberal and Ulysses. He is a graduate of Liberal High School, Oral Roberts University, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Yale Divinity School, the University of Tulsa College of Law, and the London School of Economics.
The Reverend Canon Ashley Null - Theologian to the Diocese of Western Kansas
The Rev. Canon Ashley Null is canonically resident in the Diocese of Western Kansas and serves as Bishop Milliken's theological advisor but spends the majority of his time abroad. Canon Null is the world recognized Canon Null currently holds research post funded by the German Research Council at Humboldt University of Berlin and is a visiting fellow at the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University and St. John’s College, Durham University. His project is editing the private theological notebooks of Thomas Cranmer, the author of the independent Church of England’s founding formularies, for Oxford University Press. This is a five-volume project. He is the first Canon of the new pro-cathedral of St. Mark's in Alexandria, Egypt.
