Live Webcast at GHTC: Investiture of Katharine Jefferts Schori as 26th Presiding Bishop
 Presiding Bishop-elect Katharine Jefferts Schori (ENS Photo by Bob Williams) |
On Saturday, November 4 at 10:00 a.m. (CST), at Washington National Cathedral, the Episcopal Church will welcome Katharine Jefferts Schori as its 26th Presiding Bishop. Jefferts Schori's Investiture as 26th Presiding Bishop will occur in the context of a Eucharistic celebration. This event will be webcast live in Founders’ Hall for anyone who would like to communally witness this historical event in our church history. We’ll save you a front row seat! Please RSVP to the Cathedral office at (816) 474-8260 or contact vjohnson@ghtc-kc.org.
During the Investiture, Jefferts Schori will receive symbols of office, including the primatial staff to be presented by the 25th Presiding Bishop, Frank T. Griswold, whose nine-year tenure concludes as Jefferts Schori's begins on November 1.
As Presiding Bishop, Jefferts Schori, 52, will become chief pastor to the U.S.-based Episcopal Church, which includes more than 2.4 million members in some 7,600 congregations in 111 dioceses spanning 16 countries.
She will also join the Anglican Communion's Primates Meeting, a body of principal bishops who oversee the Communion's 38 member Provinces, of which the Episcopal Church is one.
Jefferts Schori is the first woman in Anglicanism's five-century history to serve in this capacity. She has served as bishop of the Diocese of Nevada since 2001. A former university professor, Jefferts Schori is an experienced oceanographer and airplane pilot. She and her husband, Richard Miles Schori, a retired theoretical mathematician, have one daughter, Katharine Johanna, 25, who is a first lieutenant and pilot in the U.S. Air Force.
If you are unable to attend the live webcast in Founders’ Hall, you may also view the service by logging on to http://www.episcopalchurch.org.
See this Episcopal News Service article for more information concerning the Investiture.