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The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
The Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the 26th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church.
Bishop Jefferts Schori was elected to this office on June 18, 2006 by vote of the 75th General Convention, in Columbus, Ohio. This Convention also set the United Nations Millennium Development Goals as the Episcopal Church’s top mission priority. In her full endorsement of these goals, Bishop Jefferts Schori calls upon Episcopalians and the wider global community to work together for their implementation.
Bishop Jefferts Schori’s career as an oceanographer preceded her studies for the priesthood, to which she was ordained in 1994. She remains an active, instrument-rated pilot – a skill she applied when traveling between the congregations of the Diocese of Nevada, where she was elected bishop in 2000 and ordained to the episcopate February 24, 2001. At the time of her election as bishop of Nevada, she was assistant rector of the Church of the Good Samaritan in Corvallis, Oregon.
Bishop Jefferts Schori holds a B.S. degree in biology from Stanford University (1974), an M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1983) in oceanography from Oregon State University, an M.Div. from Church Divinity School of the Pacific (1994), and an honorary D.D. (2001) also from CDSP.
Bishop Jefferts Schori was born March 26, 1954, in Pensacola, Florida. She grew up in the Seattle area and later moved with her family to New Jersey. Bishop Jefferts Schori and her husband, Richard Miles Schori, a retired theoretical mathematician (topologist), were married in 1979. They have one adult daughter, Katharine Johanna who is a captain and pilot in the U. S. Air Force.
Bishop Jefferts Schori brings to her ministry emphases on baptismal ministry and adult education. As Presiding Bishop, she serves as chief pastor to the Episcopal Church’s 2.4 million members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses. As Primate, Bishop Jefferts Schori joins in consultation with other principal bishops of the 38 member Provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion, seeking to make common cause for global good and reconciliation.
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by The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
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When was the last time you heard a line like this? "Drive on over here and get a feast for free! Free food and drink, right here! Nothing but the best for you! The banquet's right here!" Most of us would probably scream "infomercial" and change the channel. And most of us would probably opt to pay for a meal we could choose.
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The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori (TEC)Sermon at St. Paul's, Charlottesville, VA
by The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
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What does [profit/prophet] mean to you? What you used to get when you sold your house? Somebody who says the world is going to end on June 23rd, 2025? The forecaster who told us several days ago that all this snow was coming?
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