The bishop's husband.While his long life had already been marked by many milestones, openly gay Episcopal bishop Otis Charles E. Otis Charles (b. 1926-04-24, Norristown, Pennsylvania[1]) is the retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah. Originally from New Jersey, he served first as a priest in Connecticut. decided he needed one more. After a 42-year marriage to a woman, raising five children, and a dramatic coming-out, Charles became the world's first bishop to marry his same-sex partner same-sex partner Social medicine A domestic partner of the same genotypic sex. See Homosexual. in church. On his 78th birthday, April 24, he married Felipe Sanchez Paris in front of about 200 family members and friends at St. Gregory's of Nyssa Episcopal Church Episcopal Church, Anglican church of the United States. Its separate existence as an American ecclesiastical body with its own episcopate began in 1789. Doctrine and Organization in San Francisco. Charles came out in 1993, after he was retired, and subsequently divorced his wife. While he was the world's first bishop to come out as gay, V. Gene Robinson of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). was the first openly gay man to be elected as a bishop. |
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