Trailblazer.WASHINGTON -- The Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori Katharine Jefferts Schori, D.D., Ph.D. (born March 26, 1954 in Pensacola, Florida) is the Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church in the United States of America. She is the first woman elected primate in the Anglican Communion. greets well-wishers after her investiture investiture, in feudalism, ceremony by which an overlord transferred a fief to a vassal or by which, in ecclesiastical law, an elected cleric received the pastoral ring and staff (the symbols of spiritual office) signifying the transfer of the office. as the presiding bishop The Presiding Bishop is an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity. Anglican Anglican Church of New Zealand For a short period the style Presiding Bishop was used by the Anglican Church in New Zealand. of the Episcopal Church at the National Cathedral, Nov. 4, 2006. Schori is the first woman to head a national branch of the Anglican Communion in its more than 450-year history. |
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