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Episcopalians elect 1st female leader
Yahoo News & Associated Press ^ | 18 June 2006 | Rachel Zoll

Posted on 06/18/2006 2:25:46 PM PDT by Saint Reagan

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first woman to lead any church in the global Anglican Communion when she was elected Sunday to be the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

The choice of Jefferts Schori may worsen — and could even splinter — the already difficult relations between the American denomination and its fellow Anglicans. Episcopalians have been sparing with many in the other 37 Anglican provinces over homosexuality, but a female leader adds a new layer of complexity to the already troubled relationship.

Only two other Anglican provinces — New Zealand and Canada — have female bishops, although a handful of other provinces allow women to serve in the post. Still, there are many Anglican leaders who believe women should not even be priests.

Jefferts Schori was elected at the Episcopal General Convention, where delegates have been debating whether to appease Anglican leaders by agreeing to temporarily stop ordaining gay bishops.

In 2003, the Americans shocked the Anglican world by electing the first openly gay bishop — V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Placing a female bishop at the head of the denomination could further anger conservatives worldwide and even within the U.S. church. And Jefferts Schori voted to confirm Robinson.

Episcopal bishops elected Jefferts Schori on the fifth ballot in a 95-93 vote from a field including six other male candidates; other General Convention delegates confirmed the choice.

The presiding bishop represents the Episcopal Church in meetings with other Anglican leaders and with leaders of other religious groups. But the presiding bishop's power is limited because of the democratic nature of the church. The General Convention is the top Episcopal policy-making body and dioceses elect their own bishops.

Jefferts Schori will inherit a fractured church. The Pittsburgh-based Anglican Communion Network, which represents 10 U.S. conservative dioceses and more than 900 parishes within the Episcopal Church, is deciding whether to break from the denomination. The House of Bishops recently started a defense fund that will help fight legal battles against parishes that want to leave and take their property with them.

Membership in the Episcopal Church, as in other mainline Protestant groups, has been declining for years and has remained overwhelmingly white. More than a quarter of the 2.3 million parishioners are age 65 or older.


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To: Saint Reagan

Wow! She sounds like a grand choice! (/sarcasm)


21 posted on 06/18/2006 3:34:17 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Support Arnold-McClintock or embrace higher taxes with Angelides.)
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To: Bushwacker777
I think you are referring to Ron Pilillo from Welcome Back Kotter:

I am a radical Episcopalian. I firmly believe in the theology of the Anglican community. I believe that the Rt. Rev. Schori is in over her head. Not that she is not bright; she is extremely smart, but she has little experience in the pulpit and less experience in the office of bishop. She comes from the environmental movement that believes that it is right no matter who disagrees with it and that they are on the side of God. I do not want schism in the American Episcopal Church. I fear it is going to happen. Consider that the American Episcopal Church found a way to stay together during the run up to the War Between the States and through that awful period. It is a farce to see us split over homosexual rights when we stayed united through the awful period of 1850 to 1880.

22 posted on 06/18/2006 3:37:44 PM PDT by Tom D. (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benj. Franklin)
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To: Saint Reagan
In 2003, her diocesan convention address clearly redefines marriage and underscores that truth is ever evolving.

Pure liberalism - truth can become what ever you want it to be.

23 posted on 06/18/2006 3:41:47 PM PDT by aimhigh
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24 posted on 06/18/2006 4:14:09 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0urs)
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To: aimhigh
Female Leader seems to be an oxymoron. Other than Margaret Thatcher, and Condi Rice, there are not many women I consider leaders. Good, competent managers, no problem (well sometimes) but not leaders.

I knew lots of women who were officers in the USMC, (yeah it was 20+ years ago)but I can't recall but one (Lt Col Vera Jones) that came close to being a true leader. And I don't believe 20 years of feminism has changed women into leaders, at least to the point men will do more than follow orders. Elvis has left the building.
25 posted on 06/18/2006 4:44:45 PM PDT by Tahoe3002 (Death to Terrorists!!! Semper Fi! USMC 1970-1981)
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To: Saint Reagan

All this is very sad. The Archbishop of Canterbury recently complained that we live in a "toxic" time. Of course, he had earlier apologized to Moslems for past Christian efforts to convert them.


26 posted on 06/18/2006 4:48:48 PM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: Saint Reagan

is clearly committed to a new consensus in the Communion that embraces progressive, revisionist theology.

Ewwww, lets have more of this progressive revisionist theology. That's the ticket. Give me that old time progressive, revisionist religion!


27 posted on 06/18/2006 4:59:22 PM PDT by sgtyork (Prove to us that you can enforce the borders first.)
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To: sockmonkey
Katharine Jefferts Schori, 51, was consecrated the ninth Bishop of Nevada on February 24, 2001. She serves a diocese of some 6,000 members in 35 congregations.

No wonder she was able to get elected. That is a really small Diocese.

If you figure 50 % turnout that’s 3000 voters, it would not take much of an activist push to get an unpopular candidate elected.

28 posted on 06/18/2006 6:03:58 PM PDT by Pontiac
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To: Saint Reagan

"Well she does look pretty butch"

There's the oxymoron of the day.


29 posted on 06/18/2006 6:19:44 PM PDT by Canedawg (In God We Trust)
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To: sionnsar

This is why I left the Episcopal Church - should have done it 30 years earlier. Yep the election of a female leader is really going to make up for the apostate Robinson.


30 posted on 06/18/2006 6:26:02 PM PDT by mgstarr
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To: Tahoe3002

"Female Leader seems to be an oxymoron."

Kind of like open-minded man?


31 posted on 06/18/2006 6:28:44 PM PDT by Mazi83
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To: BenLurkin

episcopal church her husband is a woman.


32 posted on 06/18/2006 6:32:56 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: thoughtomator

I think you are correct.

I think her election is a piss in the eye of conservatives. She is a slap to try and equate the homosexual priests with women priests.

I think it is really simple, men pay for the priest at weddings, so men need to refuse homosexual or female priests.

Talk with the wallet.


33 posted on 06/18/2006 6:35:18 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Saint Reagan

"Could you please correct my spelling in the title of "Episcopalians"?"

"Atheists"


34 posted on 06/18/2006 6:38:22 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: longtermmemmory
"I think her election is a piss in the eye of conservatives. She is a slap to try and equate the homosexual priests with women priests."

You are exactly right. I am an ex-Episcopalian, now Mo. Synod Lutheran. This action is a big FU to the rest of the Anglican Communion. This is the kind of move lefties LIVE for.

35 posted on 06/18/2006 6:41:22 PM PDT by Irene Adler
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To: longtermmemmory

There is a lot of money in endowments and property at stake here. The people who left the money to the church are probably as spastic in their graves as the dead can be. The people taking over know what they are doing, and know how to make themselves financially successful with little effort or risk.


36 posted on 06/18/2006 6:42:51 PM PDT by mathurine (ua)
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To: longtermmemmory

That was my first thought.


37 posted on 06/18/2006 6:46:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: mathurine

I do guarantee all future endowments will be written to specificall adress these types of herretical issues.

Imagine the "priests" being advised that their endowment was at risk if they allowed homosexual priests.


38 posted on 06/18/2006 7:02:59 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Mazi83
I am open minded........and experienced.
39 posted on 06/18/2006 7:33:57 PM PDT by Tahoe3002 (Death to Terrorists!!! Semper Fi! USMC 1970-1981)
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To: Tahoe3002

Of course, you are failing to note that there are some very significant women priests in the ECUSA that are on the orthodox side in this issue and fighting tooth-and-nail against the path that Griswald started this denomination down three years ago with the approval of Vicky Gene Robinson (yes, dear readers, that is his real name).


40 posted on 06/19/2006 9:02:08 AM PDT by KC Burke
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