Amazing Grace: Woman to head Episcopal Church

It's about time!

Bishop breaks stained glass ceiling - World - Times Online:

"AN AMERICAN woman has become the first in the world to have equivalent status to archbishop after being elected to head the Episcopal Church.

After just five years as a bishop and twelve as a priest, the Right Rev Katharine Schori, 52, Bishop of Nevada, has succeeded the Right Rev Frank Griswold as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. She is firmly allied with the liberal wing of the Church, having voted for the consecration of the openly gay Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.

Yesterday the Bishop of Rochester, the Right Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, attending the General Convention of the Episcopal Church as a guest, said that worldwide Anglicanism had become 'two religions' with the divisions between liberals and conservatives so profound that a schism was inevitable.
Assuming that the Episcopal Church remains part of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Schori is now propelled into the heart of its governance. She will sit alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and 36 other male archbishops at the Primates' Meeting and take a leading role at the Lambeth Conference at Canterbury in 2008. "