From Milwaukee-
In the winter of 1989, in the midst of the Salvadoran civil war, then-Milwaukee Episcopal Bishop Roger White joined a contingent of faith leaders to escort exiled Lutheran Bishop Medardo Gomez back to his home parish for the Feast of the Epiphany.
It was a show of solidarity with a people of faith in a country where the clerics knew - just weeks after six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed by the Salvadoran Army - that their collars could not save them if violence erupted.
"Roger was very courageous. I'm not talking simply about moral courage, which he had, but the courage to put himself in physical danger," said Lutheran Bishop Peter Rogness of St. Paul, Minn., who had served alongside White in Milwaukee and went with him to El Salvador.
"Roger said, 'That's part of my calling, and I'm going.' "
White, who led the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee from 1985 to 2003, died Monday of complications from a brain aneurysm suffered Aug. 11. He had been hospitalized since then, and died in the arms of his wife of 46 years, Prudence, or "Pru," their son, Marcus White, said Tuesday. He was 71.
"The Diocese of Milwaukee mourns the passing of Bishop Roger White . . . and continues to hold his widow, Pru, and his family in our hearts and prayers," said White's successor, Bishop Steven Miller.
More here-
http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/retired-episcopal-bishop-roger-white-dies-4r6lhbh-167778335.html
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