Katharine Jefferts Schori

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Katharine Jefferts Schori

Katharine Jefferts Schori (born March 26, 1954 in Pensacola , Florida , USA ) was Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA and Bishop of the Diocese of Nevada . She is the first woman to serve as a primate in the Anglican Communion .

After her childhood in New Jersey , Jefferts Schori studied biology at Stanford University , where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1974. She later received a Masters of Science (1977) and Ph.D. from Oregon State University. (1983) in oceanography . In 1994 she received an M.Div. and was ordained a priestess . Her first position as a priestess was in the Good Samaritan Congregation in Corvallis, Oregon , where she had special responsibility as Assistant Rector for the Hispanic portion of the ward.

In 2001 she was elected and ordained to the office of Bishop of Nevada. As a result of this event, as is the tradition with bishops, she received a doctorate in theology (honoris causa) from the seminary where she had studied ( The Church Divinity School of the Pacific ).

Choice as Presiding Bishop and Primate

Katharine Jefferts Schori in 2008

The Episcopal Church met at the General Convention in Columbus, Ohio in June 2006. There, Jefferts Schori was elected as Presiding Bishop on June 18, 2006 from a list of seven candidates by the House of Bishops in the fifth ballot. She received 95 of the 188 votes cast. On the same day, the House of Deputies , made up of priests, deacons and lay people, confirmed the election of the House of Bishops. Jefferts Schori is the 26th person to hold the office of Presiding Bishop and the first woman to serve as a primate in an Anglican church.

The election of Jefferts Schori was interpreted as a sign of widespread support in the Episcopal Church for the consecration of women bishops. The diocese of Fort Worth , which at the time was even opposed to ordination , asked the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other primates of the Anglican Communion for an "alternative primatial oversight", an alternative form of supervision by another primate, although the "supervisory function" of the Presiding bishops is not particularly pronounced anyway, based on the proposal of the Windsor Report , according to which forms of alternative episcopal supervision are suggested. However, this was refused and the local bishop deposed.

Since Jefferts Schori voted as bishop in 2003 to confirm the election of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire , her election as Presiding Bishop is, in the eyes of conservative Episcopalians, an affirmation that the Episcopal Church is unwilling to change its institutional views on the role of lesbians and gays in the ordained clergy.

Katharine Schori has been married to Richard Schori, a professor emeritus of mathematics in Oregon, since 1979. They have a grown daughter who serves as a captain in the US Army .

Bishops who participated in their ordination

Jeffert's Schoris ordination was the 963rd episcopal ordination in the order of the US episcopal bishops. She was succeeded in office on November 1, 2015 by Michael Bruce Curry , formerly Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina .

literature

  • The Episcopal Church Annual . Morehouse Publishing, New York 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Jefferts Schori, Katharine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jefferts, Katharine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Anglican Bishop
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Pensacola , Florida , USA