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Katharine Jefferts Schori

The Right Reverend
Katharine Jefferts Schori
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
Orders
Ordination 1994 (priest)
Consecration 2001
Personal details
Born (1954-03-26) March 26, 1954 (age 63)
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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