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• Presiding Bishop after one year in office

  Published: August 14, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Presiding Bishop

  in Oregon interviews Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori one year after her election as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Jefferts Schori is still hopeful tensions within the denomination and the worldwide Anglican Communion can be resolved. I think as a Christian you have to live in hope of

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• COGIC Elections 2007 and 2008!

  Published: September 8, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Elected Presiding Bishop, Bishops Of Foreign Regions, Cogic Elections 2007 2008, Cogic Elections, General Board Member, Cogic Presiding Bishop

  What will come out of The COGIC Elections of 2007 and 2008? What surprises may come? Will we have a young General Board Member in 2008? If they make certain prominent young Pastors Bishops of Foreign Regions could they be elected to The General Board the first time around in 2008?

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• Dream along with God

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Presiding Bishop

  Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori addressed the recent convocation of Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Basing her remarks on Isaiah 61:1-9 she encouraged the incoming class to "dream along with God." According to Mary Frances Schjonberg and Daniel Webster in Episcopal Life Online: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

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• The Great COGIC What If? The Great Church of God in Christ What If?

  Published: September 12, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: New 1st Asst, Advanced In Age, Of The Denomination, The Denomination, The Great Church Of God In Christ What, New Presiding Bishop, Politically Savvy, Presiding Bishop, The General Board, Office Of Presiding Bishop, The Great Cogic What, Denomination

  Won't Happen But Could! 2007-Presiding Bishop G. E. Patterson goes home to be with the Lord. 2007-Bishop Charles E. Blake becomes Presiding Bishop November 2007-Presiding Bishop Charles Blake is upset in the Election by One of His Opponents on The General Board. November 2008-The New Presiding Bishop elected in 2007 is upset in 2008 by another

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• From New Orleans: Eight bishops agree to serve as "episcopal visitors"

  Published: September 20, 2007, 11:34 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Bishops, Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop

  canonical duties of the Presiding Bishop, that of visiting each of the Episcopal Church's 110 dioceses during each Presiding Bishop's nine-year term. The Presiding Bishop's other two principal canonical roles are to "take order" for ordaining and consecrating bishops, and to oversee certain disciplinary actions as needed. The Presiding

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• Day 1

  Published: September 20, 2007, 5:08 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Bishops, Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop

  concern for its catholicity. Bishop Michael Curry at some later point replied that catholicity, by definition, cannot be built upon the exclusion of one class of people. The archbishop made it clear that he believed the Episcopal Church had acted preemptively in consecrating Bishop Robinson. In the afternoon Archbishop Williams asked the

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• House of Bishops: VOD

  Published: September 26, 2007, 7:28 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop

  For the true Episcopal news junkie, video on demand from the recently completed meeting of the House of Bishops. Watch the final news conference, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's message to the Church and the bishops' day of service.

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• House of Bishops: VOD

  Published: September 26, 2007, 7:28 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop

  For the true Episcopal news junkie, video on demand from the recently completed meeting of the House of Bishops. Watch the final news conference, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's message to the Church and the bishops' day of service.

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• Tobias Haller, to no one's surprise

  Published: September 27, 2007, 10:53 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Bishops, Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop

  Sometimes in trying to figure out what one thinks, one comes across someone who has already thought it.

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• The Joint Standing Committee Report: some flashpoints

  Published: October 3, 2007, 1:26 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Anglican Consultative Council, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Bishops, Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop, Primates

  right. Support for Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori's "episcopal visitors" (Pages 11 and 12) In her opening remarks to the House of Bishops, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori indicated to the assembled bishops that she had appointed eight Episcopal Visitors. ... We believe that these initiatives offer a viable basis on which

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• The Joint Standing Committee Report: some flashpoints

  Published: October 3, 2007, 1:26 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Anglican Consultative Council, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Bishops, Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop, Primates

  right. Support for Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori's "episcopal visitors" (Pages 11 and 12) In her opening remarks to the House of Bishops, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori indicated to the assembled bishops that she had appointed eight Episcopal Visitors. ... We believe that these initiatives offer a viable basis on which

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• TV interview with our presiding bishop

  Published: October 10, 2007, 10:10 am

  Tags: Presiding Bishop

  A truly delightful video interview with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on KOCO TV in Oklahoma: watch it here.

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• Four additional Episcopal visitors

  Published: October 11, 2007, 8:26 pm

  Tags: Presiding Bishop

  Online, "four additional bishops have accepted Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's invitation to serve as "episcopal visitors" in dioceses requesting this provision." They are: Bishops Philip Duncan of Central Gulf Coast, Duncan Gray of Mississippi, Rayford High (suffragan) of Texas, and Rodney Michel (assisting) of Maryland. They

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• Presiding Bishop warns Bishop Duncan

  Published: November 1, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Presiding Bishop

  Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is making public a letter of warning that is being sent to a bishop who is actively seeking to withdraw his diocese from the Episcopal Church, and has stated that letters to other bishops will follow. According to Episcopal Life Online the Presiding Bishop released the following letter: The Rt. Rev.

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• The Church of God in Christ’s General Assembly Overwhelmingly Chooses Bishop Charles E. Blake in Election for Presiding Bishop of the Church!

  Published: November 13, 2007, 1:02 am

  Tags: Bishop Charles E Blake, Presiding Bishop, Presiding Bishop Gilbert E Patterson, Proven Achiever, The Church Of God In Christ, The General Assembly, Credential Holders, Illustrious Career

  overwhelmingly chose Bishop Charles E. Blake in a called for election for Presiding Bishop of the Church! The General Assembly of The Church of God in Christ is made up of the credential holders of the church. He will finish the term of the late Presiding Bishop Gilbert E. Patterson! Bishop Blake has held the office of International

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