Iglesia Episcopal Anglicana de El Salvador ordains four people

On the Feast of the Epiphany, 6 January 2010, Bishop Martín Barahona and Bishop Medardo Gómez of the Iglesia Luterana de El Salvador ordained Manuel Esteban Osorio, Juan Pablo Alvarado y José Roberto Castro to the transitional diaconate and Rosa Irma Guerra de Alvarado to the priesthood. A SRO congregation at San Juan Evangelista in San Salvador participated in the historic ordination of the Revda Alvarado, the first Salvadoran woman of the IAES to be ordained to the priesthood (other Salvadoran women have been ordained but not in the IAES and two women from The Episcopal Church, Hannah Atkins and Amy Denny Zuniga were ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Barahona in El Salvador). Deacon Osorio will work at San Lucas, San Miguel and Cristo Rey, Bajo Lempa; Deacon Alvarado will serve Sma Trinidad, Sta Teresa; and Deacon Castro will be at San José, El Congo. Revda Alvarado will continue at San Francisco de Asis, Lourdes.

	An attentive congregation listens to the charge given the ordinands (right). All photos taken by IAES Communications Officer, Lic. Susana Barrera
	The Very Rev'd Richard Bower, Executive Director of Cristosal, gives the ordinands their charge in his sermon.
	The bishops examine the ordinands to the diaconate.
	The church now has three new transitional deacons!
	The bishop examines the ordinand to the priesthood.
	Priests and bishops gather round and pray during the Veni Sancti Spiritus.
	The new priest receives her stole from her husband, the Revdo David Alvarado.
	A jubilant bishop congratulates the newly ordained.
	The deacons pose with their proud families.
	And the new priest poses with her proud family.