From The Post-Gazette-
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church is making a Holy Week visit to Pittsburgh, where the Episcopal Diocese split in 2008.
She will answer questions from the public Tuesday evening at Trinity Cathedral, Downtown. She also will preach and preside earlier that day in Wilkinsburg as Episcopal clergy renew their ordination vows to Bishop Kenneth Price Jr., of Pittsburgh.
"I look forward to joining the clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh as we gather to renew our ordination vows," Bishop Jefferts Schori said. "There is a particular solemnity about celebrating this rite in a community which has experienced division over those very vows.
"During Holy Week we remember the difficult road of Jesus, and we continue to look toward the Resurrection which God is already bringing about in our midst."
Her visit marks another step for the recovering diocese.
"It's been a long, long time since the diocese has hosted a presiding bishop," said Rich Creehan, the communications director.
Although she visited Calvary Episcopal Church in November 2008, it was as a guest of that parish after the majority at the diocesan convention had voted to leave the Episcopal Church. Prior to that, it had been more than 22 years since a presiding bishop visited the diocese. The original Episcopal diocese refused to recognize Bishop Jefferts Schori after her 2006 election because she had supported the 2003 consecration of a partnered gay bishop.
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