The Rev.. Douglas John Fisher has been elected as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts. Fisher, age 57, rector of Grace Church in Millbrook in the Episcopal Diocese of New York ...

When King Henry VIII, well into his tyrannical phase, locked the learned and holy Bishop John Fisher of Rochester into the Tower of London, the pope of the time, Paul III, was deeply grieved.

Bishop Fisher, who is a native of Long Island, New York, was consecrated the ninth bishop on Dec. 1, 2012. He succeeded Bishop Gordon Paul Scruton, who had been elected in 1996.