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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

Sunday, October 30, 2005

>From Shanghai to Taipei, Presiding Bishop welcomed to church united,
diverse

By Bob Williams

ENS103005-02

[Episcopal News Service]

Coverage to follow in four-part report

Note to readers: Continuing its coverage of Presiding Bishop Frank
Griswold's 14-day visit to Asia, ENS will later this week release a
four-part report and photographs from Shanghai, Nanjing, Hong Kong
and Taipei.

In Taipei October 30-31, the Presiding Bishop is visiting the Episcopal
Church's 14-congregation Diocese of Taiwan led by Bishop David J. H.  Lai.
Text of Griswold's Sunday sermon at Taipei's St. John's Cathedral is
posted online at: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_69010_ENG_HTM.htm

In Hong Kong on October 29, Griswold was welcomed by Archbishop Peter
Kwong, a fellow Anglican Primate. Like the U.S.-based Episcopal Church,
the Church in Hong Kong is one the Anglican Communion's 38 member
provinces. Hong Kong is the first Anglican Province in which a woman,
the late Rev. Florence Li Tim Oi, was ordained a priest in the 1940s.

In Nanjing on October 28, the Presiding Bishop was hosted by Bishop
K.  H.  Ting, 91, an internationally renowned church leader who began
his ordained ministry as an Anglican priest and later shaped China's
"post-denominational era." At Nanjing Theological Seminary, Griswold
delivered an afternoon lecture after visiting the memorial remembering
the 300,000 victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. Dialogue followed
with Presbyter Ji Jianhong, chairperson of the National Committee of
the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China.

In Shanghai October 26-27, Griswold conferred with leaders of the China
Christian Council, including President Cao Shengje, who welcomed the
Presiding Bishop and his delegation to the council's newly renovated
headquarters. In her remarks, Dr. Cao outlined priorities for theological
education, and emphasized the Council's new initiative to restore Holy
Trinity Church, which served as Shanghai's Anglican cathedral before
it was closed at the time of China's Cultural Revolution (separate ENS
feature on this work will follow).

--ENS's upcoming reports will be filed by Robert Williams, the Episcopal
Church's director of communication, who is part of the Presiding
Bishop's Asian delegation that also includes Griswold's wife, Phoebe;
the Episcopal Church's Anglican and Global Relations director Margaret
Larom; Peace and Justice Ministries director Brian Grieves; and Barbara
Braver, the Presiding Bishop's assistant for communication.

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