Presiding Bishop of US Episcopal Church to Visit Liberia in January

From Liberia-

The Episcopal Diocese of Liberia is scheduled to play host next month to the most important visitor it has welcomed to the country in many years.

The Most Reverend Katherine Jefferts Schori, 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States, will arrive in Liberia on Saturday, January 2, 2010 on a weeklong visit.
Bishop Schori will be the special guest of Bishop Jonathan B.B. Hart and his wife, Mrs. Frances A. Hart.

Rt. Rev. Hart was himself elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Liberia nearly a year ago, on January 19, 2008.

Previously elected the ninth bishop of Nevada, Schori is the first woman elected as primate of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Her election took place at the church’s 75th General Convention, held in Columbus, Ohio in 2006, the same year President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated President of Liberia, the first woman elected to lead an African country.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England, is the considered by many the overall leader of the Anglican Communion, but that position has always been occupied by men.
Bishop Schori took office on November 4, 2006, following her investiture as Presiding Bishop at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

An elaborate program has been planned for her visit. On Sunday, January 3, at 10 a.m., she will participate in a solemn high mass at Trinity Cathedral. The following day she will be the guest of honor at a Special Convocation at Cuttington University, which will begin at noon. There, the presiding bishop will most likely receive an honorary degree.

On Tuesday, January 5, prayer time with Episcopalians at St. Andrew Chapel, Trinity Cathedral, will take place, beginning at 10 a.m. Later in the afternoon, she will visit Bromley Mission in Clay Ashland, the Liberian Diocese’s oldest institution for girls.

On the Day of Epiphany, January 6 (celebrated as the day the Baby Jesus was taken to the temple to be dedicated), Bishop Schori, accompanied by Bishop Hart, will attend holy mass at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Camp Johnson road. Later that morning, she will meet with Bishop Hart and his clergy in St. Andrews Chapel, Trinity Cathedral. In the afternoon, she will visit the Rafiki Children’s Village in Schiefflin, and at six o’clock p.m. will attend Choral Evening Prayer at St. Stephen Episcopal Church at 10th Street, Sinkor.

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