Presiding Bishop

The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, previously Bishop of Nevada, is the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. She is chief pastor to the Episcopal Church's 2.4 million members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses, ecumenical officer, and primate, joining leaders of the other 38 Anglican Provinces in consultation for global good and reconciliation. Jefferts Schori was elected at the 75th General Convention on June 18, 2006, and invested at Washington National Cathedral on November 4, 2006.

From the Presiding Bishop

February 19, 2012 (All day)

Cathedral of Saints Mary and Nicholas, Seoul

That future new world is echoed in every aspect of God’s creativity. We have heard that message several times already this morning. Isaiah tells us of God’s insistence that the past does not define the future: ‘don’t look back. I am doing a new thing, and it is already coming to reality, if you will only look and see.’

February 12, 2012 (All day)

St. Jude’s, Bangao, Philippines

This season of Epiphany reminds us that Jesus crossed the border between heaven and earth for the sake of all families, languages, peoples, and nations. We are sent to do the same kind of border-crossing work. This morning’s celebration is an important example, as the IFI and the ECP continue to move across borders that have separated people in the past. St. Jude’s even sits on the border between two dioceses, perhaps encouraging the faithful to keep crossing over!

January 22, 2012 (All day)

St. Martin’s, Charlotte, North Carolina

People of all sorts ask me about how I left oceanography and came into this line of work. I tell them I’m still fishing. Some of them get it. But people have been moving from one kind of fishing to another for a very long time.

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