All through the 25,000 green and watery square miles between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean that constitute the Episcopal diocese of Olympia, Wash., people knew last week that the bishop was back. And in Seattle, Bishop Stephen Fielding Bayne Jr., 50, just returned from a trip to Russia and five weeks at London's Lambeth Conference, climbed into a U-Drive-It Chevrolet, set out on a fast 2,000-mile trip to tell his Episcopal flock what he had seen and heard. Somewhere, between the spaghetti-and-meatball church suppers, busy Bishop Bayne knew he would have to fit in a few other chores, including...
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