As reported June 19, 2006 in The Living Church-- A spontaneous whoop of joy at 3:30 p.m., June 18 greeted the news in the House of Deputies that the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop of Nevada, had been chosen on the fifth ballot to be the next Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

Following a Eucharist at the Columbus convention center, the House of Bishops went into a closed session at Trinity Church to choose a successor to Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold. On the fifth ballot, Bishop Jefferts Schori received 95 out of 188 votes cast.

Bishop Jefferts Schori, 52, was consecrated Bishop of Nevada Feb. 24, 2001. The Diocese of Nevada consists of some 6,000 members in 35 congregations. Her service includes membership on the Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion (the precursor group to the Special Committee meeting at General Convention), the board of trustees of Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the CREDO Advisory Board, the House of Bishops’ peer coaching program, and the Board for Church Deployment. At the time of her election as Bishop of Nevada, Bishop Jefferts Schori was assistant rector at the Church of the Good Samaritan, Corvallis, Ore.

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