From West Tennessee-
Growing up as an Episcopalian in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the Rev. Phoebe Roaf never saw any priests who looked like her.
Her
role models, all white men, were affirming and wonderful, she said, but
it wasn't until her 40s that she saw God was calling her — a black
woman — to be ordained.
Now, Roaf has been elected
as the first woman and first African-American to lead the Episcopal
Diocese of West Tennessee. She will also be only the fourth black woman
to become a diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United
States.
"I’m a person who’s very optimistic about
the future," Roaf said. "I have had a ministry of building bridges and
reconciliation in my secular life and in my life as a parish priest, and
that is sorely needed at this time in our nation’s history. ... I’m
coming there as someone who wants to build bridges and bring people
together.”
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