The Rev. Canon Diane M. Jardine Bruce, rector of St. Clement’s by-the-Sea Church in San Clemente, Calif., has been elected the first woman to serve as a bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

Canon Bruce won on the third ballot, drawing 134 votes among the clergy and 237 among the laity. She was elected to fill one of two suffragan bishop positions.

The Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool, who serves as canon to the bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, was the only other nominee in a six-person slate to attract more than 100 votes in the clergy and lay deputations.

Canon Glasspool is the second woman in a same-sex partnership to be nominated for bishop since General Convention met in July. The Rev. Bonnie Perry, rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Chicago, was the first.

Canon Bruce, 53, recently underwent chemotherapy treatment in a successful battle against breast cancer. In a video statement to the diocese, she wore a scarf over her head and immediately assured the diocese that she was fully recovered from the cancer.

In a nominees’ forum on Nov. 21, she appeared without a scarf covering her head, and her hair was beginning to return.

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