Robert Moody was elected as the bishop coadjutor on September 19, 1987 at St. Paul’s Cathedral on the first ballot. Upon the retirement of McAllister he became our fourth diocesan Bishop. He was committed to mission by pursuing an active ministry among the Native Americans with the appointment of an Indian missioner and the development of a center for Indian ministry in Watonga Oklahoma. On April 19, 1995 the Murrah building was destroyed by a bombing. Moody and the diocesan staff assisted in the evacuation of residents from a housing development across from the Diocesan offices, provided pastoral assistance in a nearby hospital, and in the days following the blast the distribution of over $500,000 to those in financial need as a result of the bombing. The former rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Grand Junction, Colorado, Ed Konieczny was elected on the first ballot on May 5, 2007 at St. Paul's Cathedral. Konieczny was consecrated 5th bishop on September 15, 2007 at Oklahoma City University. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was chief consecrator. Co-consecrators included Edward S. Little, II, Bishop of Northern Indiana; Robert M. Moody, retiring bishop of Oklahoma; and Robert J. O'Neill, Bishop of Colorado, who was the preacher. From 1975 until 1992, Konieczny served as a Police Officer in Garden Grove and Anaheim, CA. He earned an associate of arts degree in administration of justice from Long Beach City College; a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Cal State Fullerton; his Master of Divinity from Church Divinity School of the Pacific; and a Doctor of Ministry from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He was ordained a Deacon and Priest in 1994. He served churches in Texas and Colorado. In 2007, he received a Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary; and a Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa from Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 2014. Konieczny and his wife, Debbie, have two sons and three grandchildren. Botkin, S. (1958). The Episcopal Church in Oklahoma, Oklahoma City: American-Bond Printing Company.