The Diocese of Utah needed only two ballots to choose the Rev. Canon Scott B. Hayashi, who was a rector in the diocese in 1989–98, as its 11th bishop.

In choosing Hayashi, who has been canon the ordinary in the Diocese of Chicago since 2005, the diocese declined to elect the Very Rev. Canon Michael L. Barlowe as the Episcopal Church’s third bishop openly involved in a same-sex relationship.

Barlowe, canon for congregational ministries in the Diocese of California, ran second on the two ballots among both clergy and laity.

The other nominees were the Rev. Canon Juan Andrés Quevedo–Bosch, rector, Church of the Redeemer, Astoria, N.Y., and the Rev. Canon Mary C.M. Sulerud, canon for deployment and vocational ministries, Diocese of Washington. Sulerud withdrew from the slate after the first ballot.

In a profile distributed before the election, Hayashi mentioned his work with other spiritual leaders — including members of the predominant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — while he was rector of Church of the Good Shepherd, Ogden.

“The Episcopal Church seeks to include people,” he wrote. “This welcome is meant to extend to all people, no exceptions. A unique manifestation of this in Utah is seen in the Christmas Eve services, at which it is not unusual to find that many of the people present are faithful members of the [Latter-day Saints] church. In a time in which a ‘silo’ or partisan mentality has become increasingly established in our world, the Episcopal Church invites people into a community that is life-giving, inclusive, holy, and sacramental.”