The Investiture of Bishop W. T. Handy, Jr.

Program from the investiture of Bishop W. T. Handy, Jr. as the Presiding Bishop of the Missouri East Annual Conference, September 28, 1980.

Following ten years of administrative leadership at The United Methodist Publishing House, Handy returned to his home state of Louisiana in 1978 to serve as a district superintendent. Two years later, in 1980, he was elected to the episcopacy.