Loring was elected Bishop of Springfield at a special Synod on June 9, 1947. He was consecrated on October 18, 1947, at St Paul's Cathedral, by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. Soon afterwards, he embarked on a visitation of the upper portion of his Diocese. Loring died suddenly less than a year after his consecration, of a coronary thrombosis on April 16, 1948.
