Katharine Jefferts Schori
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The Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori |
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| 26th Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| Installed | November 1, 2006 |
| Term ended | November 1, 2015 |
| Predecessor | Frank Griswold |
| Successor | Michael Curry |
| Other posts | Bishop of Nevada |
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| Ordination | 1994 (priest) |
| Consecration | 2001 |
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| Born |
March 26, 1954 Pensacola, Florida |
| Nationality | American |
| Denomination | Episcopalian |
| Parents | Keith Jefferts Elaine Ryan |
| Spouse | Richard Schori |
| Children | Katharine |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University Oregon State University Pacific Church Divinity School |
Katharine Jefferts Schori (born March 26, 1954, in Pensacola, Florida) is the former Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church of the United States. Previously elected as the 9th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada, she was the first woman elected as a primate in the Anglican Communion. Jefferts Schori was elected at the 75th General Convention on June 18, 2006, and invested at Washington National Cathedral on November 4, 2006 and continued until November 1, 2015, when Michael Bruce Curry was invested in the position. She took part in her first General Convention of the Episcopal Church as Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church in July 2009.
Of Irish ancestry, Jefferts Schori was born in Pensacola to Keith Jefferts and his wife Elaine Ryan. Jefferts Schori was first raised in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1963, her parents brought her, at the age of eight, into the Episcopal Church (St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, New Providence, New Jersey) with their own move out of Roman Catholicism. Her mother converted to Eastern Orthodoxy a few years later and died in 1998.
Jefferts Schori attended school in New Jersey, then earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Stanford University in 1974, a Master of Science degree in oceanography in 1977, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1983, also in oceanography, from Oregon State University. She is an instrument-rated pilot, and both her parents were pilots.
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