Head of Episcopal Church in town for climate-change conference

By Janet I. Tu
Seattle Times religion reporter
Saturday, April 12, 2008

She was an oceanographer who once worked in Seattle before she became a priest, then a bishop and, eventually, head of her national denomination.

Now, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has a chance to merge the two parts of her life.
Jefferts Schori, 54, who heads the Episcopal Church in the United States, is in town for a conference today, urging her denomination, and those of other faith traditions, to take action on climate change.

One goal is for national religious assemblies to commit to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 50 percent in 10 years at every church, synagogue or facility they maintain. the rest