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Title:[ENS]Ifill appointed Missioner for Black Ministries

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12/22/2003  
  
The Rev. Angela S. Ifill  
 
[Episcopal News Service] The Rev Angela S. Ifill has been appointed Missioner
for Black Ministries for the Episcopal Church. She will begin her work at the
Episcopal Church Center on Feb 17, 2004. 
Ifill is presently Associate Rector of St. Paul's Church in Cleveland Heights
in the Diocese of Ohio where she has been since August 1998. Before that she
served two years as canon pastor of Trinity and St. Philip's Cathedral in
Newark. Her first assignment upon earning a Masters of Divinity degree from
Virginia Theological Seminary was in the Diocese of Long Island at Trinity
and St. John's Church in Hewlett. Before entering seminary she worked for 15
years in business and industry and for a time as a deputy director for
training at the National Urban League office in New York City.

On the international level she was a member of the Anglican Communion
Delegation to the United Nations World Conference on Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. In the Diocese of Ohio
she serves as chair of the Commission to End Racism, in which capacity she
organized and implemented diocesan-wide conferences on the practice of
anti-racism. Angela is a member of the Union of Black Episcopalians and a
member of the Church Pension Fund Committee on Abundance. She is a student of
African Christianity and has visited in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and
Mozambique.

The Rt. Rev. Orris G. Walker, Bishop of Long Island, comments: "I am pleased
that the Diocese of Long Island has again been able to make a major
contribution to the wider mission of the church."

The Rt. Rev. J.Clark Grew II, Bishop of Ohio, said:" In her five years in the
Diocese of Ohio Angela has made a major contribution to diocesan life
especially in the area of social justice and through her efforts to eradicate
racism. She has a passion for seeing God at work through the movements for
peace and justice in our church and in society."

The Rev. Sandye Wilson, President of the Union of Black Episcopalians, said,
"Angela has had a long commitment to congregational development, the Black
church and to the church in the city. She brings a deep spirit and passion
for justice and a zeal for this work. I welcome her."