Her election came three decades after the Episcopal Church allowed women to become priests and bishops, the first of whom was consecrated in 1989.
Jefferts Schori and her husband, Richard Miles Schori, a retired mathematician (topologist), were married in 1979. They have one daughter, who is a pilot and captain in the Air Force.
As the Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop, Jefferts Schori inherited oversight of a denomination rent by differences over the ordination of women, openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.
The 2003 election of Gene Robinson, an openly gay man in a committed relationship, as bishop of New Hampshire — with Jefferts Schori voting in favor — a rift widened between the Episcopal Church and parts of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
“As to the blessing of same-sex unions, Jefferts Schori said, “Those services are happening now in various places, including in the Church of England, where my understanding is that there are far more of them happening there than there are in the Episcopal Church.”
A mom catches two little boys stealing cookies out of the cookie jar. She takes issue with both of them, whereupon little Johnny says, “Well, Jimmy is more wrong than me. He took MORE cookies”. The PRINCIPLE of stealing notwithstanding…
DUH
Situation ethics, anyone?!! :-/
I received a “page not found” message when trying to access the article.
I did too.
Is a Presiding Bishop actually a Primate (in the ecclesiastical sense of course ;))? I would have thought not.
I finally read it. I also thought it curious;
[i]”Jefferts Schori inherited oversight of a denomination..”[/i]
Do the Canons of TEC say as much about the PB possessing such “oversight?”
When and how did the media promote the PB to the status of Primate? Did Griswold or Browning enjoy the same perception?
Just wondering.
[The link should now work – Elf]
#4 Don R– I think we declared the PB to be ‘primate” at GC in Denver in 2000, so the PB wouldn’t feel inferior at meetings with the other provencial heads. It might have been 1997; but whenever it was, I voted against it.
Thanks, David. I suppose it does sound better than “First among Administrators,” but, given the reality of the role, it seems like a vote against was the better choice.