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show bio Bishop Katherine Jefferts-Schori
In June 2006, Katharine Jefferts-Schori was the first woman selected as the presiding bishop of The United States Episcopal Church. She is also the first woman elected to lead a major Christian denomination in the United States. She was raised in the Roman Catholic Church until 1963, when at the age of eight her parents brought her into the Episcopal Church in conjunction with their own move out of Roman Catholicism.
Leadership in the Public Sphere
Date: 1/6/2007
Katharine Jefferts-Schori, the first female bishop of the United States Episcopal Church, discusses prophetic leadership in the modern world in a public speech at the Clinton School. Jefferts-Schori frames her discussion through emphasis on the teachings of peace and justice three great world religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. She the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and encourages leadership in addressing global problems of poverty, hunger, access to education and the spreading of infectious diseases, among others.
