Edmond L. Browning

Edmond Lee Browning ( born March 11, 1929 in Corpus Christi, Texas) was from 1986 to 1997 Presiding Bishop and head of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Life

Browning studied at the beginning of the 1950s at the University of the South in Sewanee and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts ( 1952) and a Bachelor of Divinity (1954 ) from. In 1953 he married Alline Sparks. Together they had five children. On July 2, 1954 he was ordained in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas as a deacon and a year later in May of 1955 a priest, where he was first in his birthplace at the Church of the Good Shepherd, and later from 1956 to 1959 at the Redeemer Church in Eagle pass worked.

1959 Browning went to Japan, where he worked in two parishes until he was ordained on January 5, 1968 is the first missionary bishop of Okinawa by John Elbridge Hines and Francis C. Rowinski ( CCNP ) and Harry Kennedy. ( At that time, the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii raised to the bishopric, but the außerhawaiianischen territories - Guam, Okinawa, Taiwan and Kwajalein - were separated them and continued to form a Mission District. ) In 1971 he moved to Europe, where he the first full-time " Bishop in-charge "of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe was. He first lived in Nice and then in Wiesbaden, where he was a member of the community of St. Augustine. In 1974 he returned to the U.S. and was first in New York City in the church administration of the Episcopal Church responsible for World Mission until he was two years later elected as the second Bishop of Hawaii.

In 1985 he was elected Presiding Bishop; He took office on January 16, 1986 At his inauguration in Washington National Cathedral, he took in his sermon regarding the growing tension between liberals and conservatives within the Church. They may not ask him "to honor one set of views and disregard the other I may agree with one, but I will respect both ... the unity of this church will be maintained not Because We agree on everything but Because -. hopefully - we will leave judgment to God. "

As the tenure of Edmond Browning on 31 December 1997 came to an end, was Frank Tracy Griswold III, his successor.