National Cathedral announces first event since earthquake

By Michelle Boorstein
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday announced its first event since an earthquake rocked the prominent Episcopal church in late August, sending spires toppling hundreds of feet to the ground.

The city landmark has been closed to the public but will host a private service Sunday Nov. 12 to install a new bishop of the Washington Episcopal Diocese. The Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the first woman elected to oversee the diocese, replaces John Bryson Chane.

That day’s events are private but the cathedral will be open to the public the next day, when Budde preaches her first sermon as bishop. That will be the first Sunday service there since the quake; the cathedral has been holding services at a local synagogue in the meantime.  the rest