Episcopal PB Schori says ‘stay grounded’

By Carol Crump
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Rt. Rev. Katherine Jefferts Schori is the first woman to preside over the 2.4 million members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses that make up the Episcopal Church. But the church’s 26th presiding bishop and primate wasn’t chosen for her gender, according to Wyoming Episcopal Bishop Bruce Caldwell. The members of the far flung Anglican Communion saw her “compelling confidence about life, her centeredness and balance,” he said.

Jefferts Schori was in Casper from Oct. 1-3 as a special guest at the annual convention of several hundred members of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming. During her nine years as presiding bishop, she’ll visit each of the 110 dioceses under her care, in the U.S., Taiwan, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Europe. the rest