Some local Episcopalians will soon have a chance to personally ask questions of the church’s top U.S. official.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church, will visit parishes in Augusta, Savannah and Statesboro on Sept. 12-14.
Jefferts Schori’s visit starts with a closed meeting with clergy of the diocese and those studying for ordination Sept. 12 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Statesboro.
She will meet with laity and diocesan officials Sept. 13, at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in two, two-hour sessions. The morning and afternoon meetings each include an hour of question-and-answer with the audience. Some questions will be submitted in advance but some will be taken from the floor.
“We’re trying to do this so she gets a fair breadth of diocesan concerns,” said the Rev. Jim Parker, spokesman for the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia.
The diocese is issuing tickets to the sessions at St. Peter’s, which holds seating for “several hundred,” Parker said. The church comfortably seats at least 400 people in the pews.
The event is not open to the public. Episcopalians who would like to attend are asked to contact their pastors.
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I am curious as to when the habit of referring to the PB of TEC as a primate began and whether or not this is correct or merely arrogation. While at the conference at GTS for the Anglican Covenant one speaker from Sewanee stated categorically that the PB is not primatial but practical for the purpose of sending a representative to Lambeth etc. Any thoughts?
#2, the term “Chief Pastor” was added to the title of the PB by revision of the canons at GC in 1967, “and Primate” was added in the same way in 1982.
Bruce Robison
As the slips of paper are passed around the priests present will say : “these are the questions you may ask – no others..” Nuff said!