Barbara Harris (bishop)

Barbara Clementine Harris ( born June 12, 1930 in Philadelphia ) was the first woman was ordained in the Anglican Communion to the bishop, and thus also the first bishop of a church that believes in Apostolic Succession.

Harris has long been active in the American civil rights movement and participated already in the 1960s in the nonviolent marches Prost part of the movement. Throughout its alternating rich professional biography she drew from repeatedly by liberal views and great directness.

Life as a layman

Harris graduated from Villanova University, the Department of Urban Theology in Sheffield (England) and the Pennsylvania Foundation for Pastoral Counseling. Prior to her ordination Harris worked as Head of Public Relations, the Sun Oil Company. She was measuring servant in the service in which the first women were ordained ( irregularly ) in the Episcopal Church on July 29, 1974.

Life as a priestess

Her then parish priest at the Church of the Advocate in the district of North Philadelphia, the Rev. Paul Washington, convinced that Harris had a serious interest in a priestly life, and recommended them to their bishop, Lyman Ogilby of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. Ogilby consecrated as a deacon in 1979 and as a priest in 1980.

Life as Bishop

On 11 February 1989 it was consecrated as the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts Weihbischöfin by Edmond Lee Browning and David Elliot Johnson and Allen Lyman Bartlett. In 2003, she retired there. Her successor as Weihbischöfin is another African American, Gayle Elizabeth Harris.

Currently, Barbara Harris serves as assisting bishop ( for reasons of age no longer work full ) in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and as president of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, the publisher in the magazine The Witness appears.

Works

• Barbara C. Harris: Parting Words: A Farewell Discourse. Cowley Publications, Boston, ISBN 1,561,012,173th
• Barbara C. Harris: Beyond Power Shift: Theological questions in a changing world ( The Westminster Tanner - McMurrin lectures on the history and philosophy of religion at Westminster College). Westminster College, ISBN B0006PCK34.