First Female Primate

In a move that will probably go down like the proverbial lead balloon in certain quarters, and in what is certainly an interesting counterpoint to the slow moves to even get a woman Bishop in this country, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the USA has narrowly elected Katharine Jefferts Schori as the first ever female primate of an Anglican Church. For those of you who don’t know much about the Church hierarchy, this roughly equivalent to us having a woman as the Archbishop of Canterbury. Putting aside that many parts of the worldwide Church don’t even have women priests, let a lone female bishops, she also voted for the election of Gene Robinson three years ago, and is supportive of blessing same-sex unions. A split in the Church is probably now a foregone conclusion.