Former Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning believes the most important thing that will remembered about the episcopacy of the Rt. Rev. Johncy Itty will not be his birthdate — the new Bishop of Oregon is 40, the youngest bishop in the Episcopal Church — but rather his unflagging commitment to establishment of justice on earth.

“The bishop-elect is a man more centered on Isaiah than on technology (although he knows a lot about technology),” said Bishop Browning in his consecration sermon in Salem Sept. 20. Justice, he added, “has been an undergirding theme in his life, and I suspect we will hear much from him about it.”