Edmond Lee Browning
Edmond Lee Browning (born March 11, 1929 in Corpus Christi , Texas , † July 11, 2016 in Hood River , Oregon ) was Presiding Bishop and head of the Episcopal Church in the USA from 1986 to 1997 .
Life
Browning studied at the University of the South at Sewanee in the early 1950s and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (1952) and a Bachelor of Divinity (1954). In 1953 he married Alline Sparks. Together they had 5 children. On July 2, 1954, he was in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas as a deacon and a year later in May 1955 ordained a priest , where he was first in his birthplace at the Church of the Good Shepherd, and later 1956-1959 at the Redeemer Church in Eagle Pass was active.
In 1959 Browning went to Japan, where he served in two parishes until he was ordained the first missionary bishop of Okinawa on January 5, 1968 by John Elbridge Hines and Francis C. Rowinski ( PNCC ) and Harry Kennedy . (At that time the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii was elevated to a bishopric, but the non-Hawaiian areas - Guam , Okinawa , Taiwan and Kwajalein - were separated from it and continued to form a mission district.) In 1971 he moved to Europe, where he became the first full-time "Bishop" in-charge "of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe . He lived first in Nice and then in Wiesbaden , where he was a member of the St. Augustine congregation . In 1974 he returned to the USA and was first in New York City in the church administration of the Episcopal Church responsible for world missions until he was elected second bishop of Hawaii two years later.
In 1985 he was elected Presiding Bishop; he took office on January 16, 1986. At his inauguration at Washington National Cathedral , he referred in his homily to the growing tension between liberals and conservatives within the Church: one should not ask him "to honor one set of views and disregard the other. I may agree with one, but I will respect both ... the unity of this church will be maintained not because we agree on everything but because - hopefully - we will leave judgment to God. "
When Edmond Browning's term ended on December 31, 1997, Frank Tracy Griswold III succeeded him.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Browning's biography on the official website ( January 6, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive )
- The Electronic Clerical Directory - Church Publishing, Inc.
- The Digital Archives of the Episcopal Church
- The Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Browning, Edmond Lee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American clergyman, head of the Episcopal Church in the USA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Corpus Christi , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 2016 |
| Place of death | Hood River , Oregon |