Hooray for Bishop Glasspool!
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The Office of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church has announced that Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool has received the necessary consents from Bishops with jurisdiction and Standing Committees. She will therefore be consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles on May 15th in Long Beach, CA. Coincidentally, the date is that of Long Beach Pride.
Canon Glasspool will be the first openly-Lesbian bishop in the Anglican Communion and the second openly-gay bishop after Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
There has been no announcement from Lambeth Palace, and no news items over here in England. I expect to hear something tomorrow on the Today program on Radio 4. If not, I'll be very annoyed, as they made a big fuss about her election. His Grace the Most Rev'd Rowan Douglas Williams, DD, PC, by the Grace of God Archbishop of Canterbury, made a very po'faced press release in December after her election. I wonder what will be on the Lambeth Palace website tomorrow. Their Twitter account is @lambethpress, and I've subscribed.
I toyed with the idea of travelling to Los Angeles for the consecration, as I did for Gene Robinson's consecration in 2003, but my feet and the fact that I'll be hosting my brother here in London the previous week means that I doubt I'll be able to swing it.
Cheers! Hooray! Just as with woman priests and bishops, soon the election and consecration of openly-gay and lesbian bishops will be seen as run-of-the-mill.
The Office of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church has announced that Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool has received the necessary consents from Bishops with jurisdiction and Standing Committees. She will therefore be consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles on May 15th in Long Beach, CA. Coincidentally, the date is that of Long Beach Pride.
Canon Glasspool will be the first openly-Lesbian bishop in the Anglican Communion and the second openly-gay bishop after Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
There has been no announcement from Lambeth Palace, and no news items over here in England. I expect to hear something tomorrow on the Today program on Radio 4. If not, I'll be very annoyed, as they made a big fuss about her election. His Grace the Most Rev'd Rowan Douglas Williams, DD, PC, by the Grace of God Archbishop of Canterbury, made a very po'faced press release in December after her election. I wonder what will be on the Lambeth Palace website tomorrow. Their Twitter account is @lambethpress, and I've subscribed.
I toyed with the idea of travelling to Los Angeles for the consecration, as I did for Gene Robinson's consecration in 2003, but my feet and the fact that I'll be hosting my brother here in London the previous week means that I doubt I'll be able to swing it.
Cheers! Hooray! Just as with woman priests and bishops, soon the election and consecration of openly-gay and lesbian bishops will be seen as run-of-the-mill.
