Post by angli_fan on Dec 18, 2009 13:29:26 GMT -5
[from the Episcopal News Service]
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is scheduled to visit Africa with a weeklong trip to Liberia in January. The visit will mark the first time she is the official guest of an African church
At the invitation of Episcopal Church of Liberia Bishop Jonathan B.B. Hart, Jefferts Schori will witness the work of the church, celebrate Mass at Trinity Cathedral in the capital Monrovia and visit Episcopal-affiliated Cuttington University, among other stops both inside and outside the nation's capital. In addition to meeting with diocesan staff, clergy and vestry members, the presiding bishop is scheduled to meet with U.S. Embassy and USAID officials and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first elected African woman president.
"It will be wonderful for the presiding bishop to go and identify herself with them," said the Rev. Emmanuel K. Sserwadda, Episcopal Church program officer for Africa. "It has been three years since the war ended and the country is still recovering and rebuilding."
Founded by the U.S.-based Episcopal Church in 1836, the Episcopal Church of Liberia was a diocese in the Episcopal Church until 1980, when it became part of the Anglican Province of West Africa. As part of that change of affiliation, the Episcopal Church and the Liberia diocese established a covenant partnership, which pledges each entity to mutual ministry and interdependence and calls for financial subsidies with an eventual goal of self sufficiency and sustainability for the Church of Liberia.
More at:
ecusa.anglican.org/79901_117883_ENG_HTM.htm
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is scheduled to visit Africa with a weeklong trip to Liberia in January. The visit will mark the first time she is the official guest of an African church
At the invitation of Episcopal Church of Liberia Bishop Jonathan B.B. Hart, Jefferts Schori will witness the work of the church, celebrate Mass at Trinity Cathedral in the capital Monrovia and visit Episcopal-affiliated Cuttington University, among other stops both inside and outside the nation's capital. In addition to meeting with diocesan staff, clergy and vestry members, the presiding bishop is scheduled to meet with U.S. Embassy and USAID officials and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first elected African woman president.
"It will be wonderful for the presiding bishop to go and identify herself with them," said the Rev. Emmanuel K. Sserwadda, Episcopal Church program officer for Africa. "It has been three years since the war ended and the country is still recovering and rebuilding."
Founded by the U.S.-based Episcopal Church in 1836, the Episcopal Church of Liberia was a diocese in the Episcopal Church until 1980, when it became part of the Anglican Province of West Africa. As part of that change of affiliation, the Episcopal Church and the Liberia diocese established a covenant partnership, which pledges each entity to mutual ministry and interdependence and calls for financial subsidies with an eventual goal of self sufficiency and sustainability for the Church of Liberia.
More at:
ecusa.anglican.org/79901_117883_ENG_HTM.htm