Committed to the new agenda
Traditionalists say Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is part of a liberal movement that is splitting apart the U.S. Episcopal Church and larger Anglican Communion. Their position is unlikely to dampen her desire for change
ALAN COOPERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

To visit the Episcopal parishes across her huge but sparsely populated Nevada diocese, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori pilots a small airplane. She often bumps down on tiny airstrips, but wherever her single-engine Cessna 172 lands, she is welcome.
That's about to change.

On June 18, the Episcopal Church's General Convention elected Jefferts Schori to a nine-year term as the denomination's presiding bishop, making her the first woman to head any branch of the Anglican Communion, the worldwide family of churches descended from the Church of England.

Although she will not take up her new role until November, six U.S. dioceses already have rejected her authority and that number is rising. the rest