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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@mail.epicom.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

February 17, 2005 - Thursday Thesis: Meeting People with Purpose

Black bishops are focus of new poster, booklet 

[Episcopal News Service] Through the past 130 years, there have been 37
black bishops consecrated in the Episcopal Church. These bishops hail from
the African Diaspora, as well as Africa, and they are the focus of a new
poster and booklet just released by the Office of Black Ministries at the
Episcopal Church Center. 

In recognition of these leaders, the Episcopal Church's Office of Black
Ministries has updated its Black Bishops of the Episcopal Church 1874-2004
wall poster and for the first time added a 37-page booklet containing
biographical sketches of each bishop's contribution to the church and
community. A 38th bishop in this sequence will soon be consecrated now that
Edward A. Gumbs was elected on January 29, bishop of the Virgin Islands.

Beginning with the late Bishop James Theodore Augustus Holly, the first
bishop of Haiti and ending with Bishop Gayle Elizabeth Harris, of
Massachusetts, the poster and booklet list each bishop according to his or
her date of consecration. (Please see full listing of bishops below.) 

The poster and accompanying booklet are available through Episcopal Parish
Services (on-line: http://www.episcopalparishservices.org/; telephone
800-903-5544.

Leadership for the distribution and development of these resources was
provided by the Episcopal Church's Center's Bishop Arthur Williams Jr., who
provides oversight for ethnic congregational development, and the Rev.
Angela S. Ifill, missioner, Office of Black Ministries.

 

The poster and booklet feature these bishops: 

* James Theodore Augustus Holly, Diocese of Haiti (1829 - 1911)
* Samuel David Ferguson, Diocese of Liberia (1842 - 1916)
* Edward Thomas Demby, Diocese of Arkansas ( 1869 - 1957)
* Henry Bard Delaney, Diocese of North Carolina (1858 - 1928)
* Theophilus Momolu Firah Gardiner, Diocese of Liberia (1870 - 1941)
* Bravid Washington Harris, Diocese of Liberia (1896 - 1965)
* Dillard Houston Brown, Diocese of Liberia (1912 - 1969)
* John Melville Burgess, Diocese of Massachusetts (1909 - 2003)
* Cedric Earl Mills, Diocese of Virgin Islands (1903 - 1992)
* Richard Beamon Martin, Diocese of Long Island (1913-)
* George Daniel Browne, Diocese of Liberia (1933 - 1993)
* Luc Anatole Jacques Garnier, Diocese of Haiti (1928 - 1999)
* John Thomas Walker, Diocese of Washington (1925 - 1989)
* Lemuel Barnett Shirley, Diocese of Panama (1916 - 1999)
* Telesforo Alexander Isaac, Diocese of Dominican Republic (1929-)
* Quintin Ebenezer Primo, Jr., Diocese of Chicago (1918 - 1998)
* Harold Louis Wright, Diocese of New York (1929 - 1978)
* Henry Irving Mayson, Diocese of Michigan (1925 - 1995)
* Walter Decoster Dennis, Diocese of New York (1932 - 2003)
* Henry Boyd Hucles, III, Diocese of Long Island (1923 - 1989)
* Clarence Nicholas Coleridge, Diocese of Connecticut (1930-)
* James Hamilton Ottley, Diocese of Panama (1939-)
* Sturdie Wayman Downs, Diocese of Nicaragua (1947-)
* Arthur Benjamin Williams, Jr., Diocese of Ohio (1935-)
* Egbert Don Taylor, Diocese of the Virgin Island (1937-)
* Orris George Walker, Diocese of Long Island (1942-)
* Herbert Thompson, Jr., Diocese of Southern Ohio (1933-)
* Franklin Delton Turner, Diocese of Pennsylvania (1933-)
* Barbara Clementine Harris, Diocese of Massachusetts (1930-)
* Chester Lovelle Talton, Diocese of Los Angeles (1941-)
* Victor Alfonso Scantlebury, Diocese of Panama (1945-)
* Jean Zache Duracin, Diocese of Haiti (1947-)
* Theodore Althelbert Daniels, Diocese of the Virgin Islands (1944-)
* Wendell Nathaniel Gibbs, Jr., Diocese of Michigan (1954-)
* Michael Bruce Curry, Diocese of North Carolina (1954-)
* Lloyd Emmanuel Allen, Diocese of Honduras (1956-)
* Gayle Elizabeth Harris, Diocese of Massachusetts (1951-)

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