From Seattle-The Anglican diocese of New Westminster, embracing British Columbia’s lower mainland, last week elected a Seattle priest, the Rev. Canon Melissa Skelton, as its new bishop.
Skelton will be the first woman and the first United States citizen to head the diocese, based in Vancouver but named for its suburb. She succeeds the Rt. Rev. Michael Ingham, bishop for two decades, who dealt with the resistance of conservative and Chinese-Canadian congregations when he became the first Anglican bishop in Canada to endorse the blessing of same-sex unions.
Skelton has been rector (pastor) of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on lower Queen Anne, a parish long known for both its inclusiveness and worship that expresses the catholic tradition in the Episcopal Church.
She told the Vancouver Sun that St. Paul’s has attracted worshipers “wounded” by other Christian denominations. They are, she said, “mostly evangelicals looking for beauty and mystery.”
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