After four years serving with the U.S. Air Force and dozen year career as a businessman, and separation from his wife in 1975 due to his alcoholism, he began attending church in Morgantown, West Virginia with her, and heard a call to the ministry and turned his life (and career) around.
In 1991 he transferred to Dayton, Ohio and served as rector at Christ Church until accepting the offer from the Diocese of Southern Virginia.
[2] Bane was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Southern Virginia on April 9, 1997, during a diocesan special session on the seventh ballot.
On September 6, 1997, by Bishop Herbert Thompson Jr. of Southern Ohio led the consecration service at the Hampton Convocation Center.
[4] However, on March 21, 2015, Bane left the ACNA and wrote a letter rescinding his renunciation of the Episcopal Church.