The primary convention of the Missionary District of California met at Trinity Church in San Francisco on June 24, 1850.

By early 2006, after a search process, a slate of seven finalists were presented to the diocese as candidates to succeed him.

Resolution 1.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference, a consultative body of the wider Anglican Communion without jurisdictional authority for any national Church, had declared abstinence to be "right" for those not called to heterosexual marriage.

[4][5] Marc Andrus, Suffragan Bishop of Alabama, was elected on the third ballot[6] with the openly homosexual candidates receiving only a few votes.

He was installed as the eighth Bishop of California on July 22, 2006, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.