Katharine Jefferts Schori

Quick Facts

Full Name	Katharine Jefferts Schori
Occupation	Priest
Date Of Birth	Mar 26, 1954(1954-03-26)
Age	70
Birthplace	Pensacola
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Pisces

Katharine Jefferts Schori Biography

Katharine Jefferts Schori is one of the most popular and richest Priest who was born on March 26, 1954 in Pensacola, Florida, United States. Katharine Jefferts Schori (born March 26th 1954) was the Primate and Presiding Bishop in the Episcopal Church of the United States. Prior to being elected to the position of 9th Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada and Nevada, she became the very first female to be chosen as a Primate of the Anglican Communion. Jefferts Schori was elected to the position at 75th General Convention on June 18 2006. She was installed by the Washington National Cathedral on November 4, 2006. She remained through November 1st, 2015 which is when Michael Bruce Curry was invested as the 9th Bishop. She attended the first General Convention of the Episcopal Church as the Presiding bishop from The Episcopal Church in July 2009.

Jefferts Schori graduated with a Master of Divinity in 1994 from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and was ordained a priest the following year. She was the secretary to William R. McCarthy at the Church of the Good Samaritan located in Corvallis, Oregon, where she was specifically responsible to oversee the pastorate of the Hispanic community. She is an experienced Spanish communicator. She was also responsible for adult education programs.

In 2001, Jefferts Schori was elected and consecrated Bishop of Nevada. The Church Divinity School of the Pacific gave her an honorary Doctor of Divinity in 2001. Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois awarded her an honorary degree in 2007, as did The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee the following year. (Most Episcopal seminaries award an honorary doctorate to alumni who become bishops.)

Jefferts Schori voted to consent to the election of Gene Robinson, an openly gay and partnered man, as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, to which some conservative Episcopalians objected strenuously.

She was married to Richard Schori, an Oregon State professor of topology in 1979. Their child Katharine is an officer and captain of the United States Air Force.

Katharine Jefferts Schori Net Worth

Katharine Jefferts Schori is one of the richest Priest from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katharine Jefferts Schori 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The family is of Irish or Swiss (Schori) Ancestry of Swiss and Irish, Jefferts Schori was born in Pensacola to Keith Jefferts and his wife Elaine Ryan. Jefferts Schori was brought up within the Catholic Church. Her parents in 1963 took her aged eight, to the Episcopal Church (St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, New Providence, New Jersey) with their own departure from Roman Catholicism. Her mother changed her religion to Eastern Orthodoxy a couple of years later. She died in 1998.

Jefferts Schori attended school in New Jersey, then earned an undergraduate bachelor of Science degree in biology from Stanford University in 1974, she earned a Master of Science degree in oceanography in 1977 and she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1983 and also in oceanography at Oregon State University. She is a pilot with an instrument rating and both of her parents were pilots.

Jefferts Schori was the 963rd bishop consecrated in the Episcopal Church. She was consecrated by Jerry A. Lamb, Bishop of Northern California; Robert L. Ladehoff, Bishop of Oregon; and Carolyn Tanner Irish, Bishop of Utah.

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Jefferts Schori’s tenure was highly controversial and marked by unprecedented schism, with groups from four dioceses (Fort Worth, Pittsburgh, Quincy, and San Joaquin) breaking off to become part of the Anglican Church in North America. At her direction, the national church initiated lawsuits against departing dioceses and parishes, with some $22 million spent as of 2011. She also established a policy that church properties were not to be sold to departing congregations.

Facts & Trivia

Katharine Ranked on the list of most popular Priest. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Katharine Jefferts Schori celebrates birthday on March 26 of every year.

Jefferts Schori announced on September 23, 2014, that she would not seek another term as Presiding Bishop. On June 27, 2015, the General Convention elected Bishop Michael Curry of North Carolina as the 27th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

Why was Katharine Jefferts Schori special?

After defeating six men in the election at the church’s General Convention in Columbus, Ohio, in June 2006, she became the first woman chosen as a churchwide leader in the 400-year history of the Anglican Communion.

Who was the first presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church?

No.Presiding BishopTook office
1| William White| July 28, 1789
2| Samuel Seabury| October 5, 1789
3| Samuel Provoost| September 13, 1792

Who was the presiding bishop before Michael Curry?

The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori
Church| Episcopal Church
In office| 2006–2015
Predecessor| Frank Griswold
Successor| Michael Curry

What is a presiding bishop in the Episcopal Church?

In the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the Presiding Bishop is the chief pastor and primate of the national church and its nine ecclesiastical provinces.

How do you address an Episcopal bishop?

IN THE U.S.A. The American branch of the church – the Episcopal Church in the USA – addresses its Presiding Bishop as ‘ the Most Reverend (Full Name) ‘ and its other bishops as ‘the Right Reverend (Full Name)’. Both are, in conversation and in a salutation, ‘Bishop (Surname)’.