Salt Lake City — Episcopal bishops have made history again. On June 27 during a private meeting at St. Mark’s Cathedral in downtown Salt Lake City, they elected Bishop Michael Curry as the first African-American presiding bishop of the 2.5 million-member faith. Curry won in a landslide vote in a race against three other candidates. The vote came nearly a decade after the bishops chose their first female leader. He will succeed Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the faith’s first female presiding bishop, who completes her term Nov. 1.
The U.S. Episcopal Church is a branch of the 80 million-member Anglican Communion, with churches across the globe and its origins in the Church of England.
(RNS)
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