Episcopal Church USA Elects Female Presiding Bishop
Albert Mohler
Posted: Monday, June 19, 2006 at 3:40 am ET

The anguish of orthodox Anglicans and evangelical Episcopalians intensified Sunday as the ECUSA elected the Right Reverend Katharine Schori, Bishop of Nevada, as the denomination's first woman to serve as Presiding Bishop. The move is being hailed as a victory for the liberal wing of the church, and it comes even as the church is embroiled in yet another controversy over its election of an openly-homosexual bishop in 2003.

As Stephen Bates, religion correspondent for The Guardian London, reports:

The US Episcopal church stunned Christians across the world last night by unexpectedly electing the first woman primate in the Anglican church. The Rt Rev Katharine Jefferts Schori, 52, Bishop of Nevada - one of the smallest dioceses in the US - for only five years and ordained for only a decade, may well be the highest placed woman priest in church history. the rest