From The Washington Post-Vice President Biden and the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, are slated to lead a national memorial service for Nelson Mandela on Wednesday morning at the Washington National Cathedral.
The service, held in conjunction with the South African Embassy, is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. and feature a host of dignitaries, elected officials, and civil rights leaders.
The ceremony will be streamed live at the Cathedral’s Web site. Mandela, the statesman and former president of South Africa, died Thursday at age 95.
After massive mourning events in South Africa on Tuesday, Mandela’s body is lying in state in the capital, Pretoria, until Sunday, when he will be buried in his ancestral village.
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