From Tulsa-
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first woman primate in the worldwide Anglican Communion, will speak in Tulsa on Sunday and Monday.
Jefferts Schori was elected to a nine-year term as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in 2006. She has headed the church through the turbulent years following the installation in 2004 of the first openly gay non-celibate Episcopal bishop.
During that time, the Episcopal Church, which is the American arm of the worldwide Anglican Communion, came under heavy criticism.
Some church leaders and members opposed to the ordination left the church and formed the conservative Anglican Church in North America.
The American church also came under fire from Anglicans in the more conservative Southern Hemisphere who opposed the ordination of a gay bishop.
Jefferts Schori holds a Ph.D. in oceanography and is a licensed pilot. Her daughter in a pilot in the U.S. Air Force.
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