From Kansas-
Rev.
Cathleen Bascom has broken ground as a woman in the Episcopal church
many times over the last three decades. She was the first woman to go
through the entire lengthy and taxing process of ordination to the
priesthood in Kansas in the 1980’s. Now Bascom will be consecrated as
the first ever woman bishop of the Diocese of Kansas.
Bascom, from the
Episcopal Diocese of Iowa, was in charge of campus ministries at Wichita
State and Kansas State from 1993-2001. She was elected Friday as the
tenth bishop to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas — making her the
first woman to fill the role since the formation of the diocese in 1859.
Women have been allowed
ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church since 1976, but the
first woman was not elected as bishop until 1988. When Bascom was
ordained in the Diocese of Kansas, women’s ordination was relatively new
and those early days could be lonely and difficult for female clergy.
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