Thursday, October 09, 2008

Episcopal bishop assess church's rift

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/08/bishop.html?sid=101

[The Columbus Dispatch] 9 Oct 2008--Days after the Pittsburgh Diocese voted to leave the Episcopal Church over its teachings on homosexuality and salvation, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said she thinks the worst of the crisis in the denomination is over.

She also predicted that openly gay bishops will be elected in the future, despite an agreement among bishops not to consent to such elections for the time being.

Jefferts Schori, the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Church, was in Columbus today to preach at Trinity Episcopal Church Downtown, where she was elected bishop in 2006.

She spoke to The Dispatch after receiving an honorary doctorate in divinity from Bexley Hall Seminary, which shares a campus with Trinity Lutheran Seminary.

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