sentences:  Following the resignation of Joe G. Burnett, J. Scott Barker was consecrated as bishop in October 2011.His election was held during a special diocesan council meeting held at St. Mark's Pro-Cathedral in Hastings, Nebraska.While it is certain that men and women associated with the Episcopal Church were included among the earliest explorers and settlers of the territory that came to be called Nebraska, it is unknown who those first Episcopalians might have been, and where in the territory they might first have lead worship services from the Book of Common Prayer.