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Article: Leading an Embattled Church; Jefferts Schori, a Risk-Taker, Is First Woman to Preside Over Episcopal Church
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- The Washington Post
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- November 4, 2006
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Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori thought the odds that she
would be elected to lead the Episcopal Church were "ridiculous" --
absolutely against her.
"I was a woman, fairly young, I hadn't been a bishop all that
long, and I was serving a diocese that's not part of the Eastern
establishment," the 52-year-old Jefferts Schori said.
Then came the surprise: She won anyway, in balloting at the
Episcopal General Convention in June. Today, Jefferts Schori will
be installed as presiding bishop at Washington National Cathedral,
becoming the first female priest to lead a national church in the
nearly 500-year-old Anglican Communion.
"The Bible is full of stories of the younger son being ...