From Michigan-The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan will get a new leader this weekend, and it will be a historic event on two fronts.
The Reverend Bonnie Perry will be consecrated as bishop at a ceremony in Dearborn on Saturday. She will become the first woman and first openly-LGBTQ person to lead the diocese, which covers 77 Episcopal congregations in southeast Michigan.
Perry has been an ordained Episcopal priest and deacon since 1990. She comes to Michigan from Chicago, where she has led the All Saints’ congregation for 27 years. She was elected bishop of the Michigan diocese in June 2019.
“This was the diocese that I wanted to come to,” Perry said on Friday at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Detroit, where she will be based. “There is a justice, social justice legacy here that I wanted to build on. I loved the interplay between suburbs and urban, and wealth and despair. All of that seemed completely compelling to me.”
More here-
https://www.michiganradio.org/post/episcopal-diocese-michigan-prepares-consecrate-first-woman-lesbian-bishop
and here-
https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/652650
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