Psalm 31:19, modified
How great is
your goodness,
O Lord!
which you
have laid up
for those
who love you;
which you have done in the sight of all…
Bishop White was the chief architect of the Episcopal Church’s constitution & it’s first Presiding Bishop for
several months in 1789, then again for 40 years, from 1795 until his death in 1836.
Our 26th Presiding Bishop, elected
at the General Convention in 2005
is Katherine Efforts Schori
and our new Presiding Bishop elect, # 27, is Michael Curry
elected this year, who will
begin serving November 1 on the Feats of All Saints.
We’ve come a long way, no mater how far we have to go. When William White was our PB , slavery was the law of the land and women were not even delegates to the Convention, much less ordain-ed! It was William White who in 1804 ordained Absalom Jones our first African American priest.
