From Liberia-

Cuttington University, founded in 1889 by the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States as Cuttington College and Divinity School, yesterday conferred the honorary degree Doctor of Divinity on the church’s presiding bishop, Most Rev. Dr. Katherine Jefferts Schori.

The bishop arrived in Liberia last Saturday on a weeklong visit as guest of Episcopal diocesan Bishop Jonathan B.B. Hart and his wife, Frances Amanda Hart.

Schori is the first woman to be elected presiding bishop. She is also the first Episcopal presiding bishop in recent memory to visit Liberia.

In his citation, read before the honorary degree was awarded, Cuttington’s president, Dr. Henrique Tokpa, described Schori as “a multi-talented individual” who is also an active, instrument-rate pilot, a skill which she applied when traveling between congregations of the Diocese of Nevada during her episcopacy there.

Schori grew up in the Seattle, Washington area, and spent most of her life in the West. She was married in 1979 to Richard Miles Schori, a retired Mathematician (Topologist), a marriage that was blessed with a daughter who is a captain and pilot in the U.S. Air Force. Having obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree in Biology from Stanford University, Schori proceeded to obtain a Master of Science (M.S.) degree and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Oceanography from Oregon State University.

“Your career as an Oceanographer was therefore well grounded,” Tokpa told the honoree.
“Still in quest of knowledge, however, you proceeded to obtain a Master of Divinity degree (M.Div.) from Church Divinity School of the Pacific and was ordained priest in 1994 and in 2000, elected Bishop of Nevada. At the time of your election as Bishop of Nevada, you were not only a priest, but a university lecturer and hospice chaplain in Oregon.”

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