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1. US church elects first woman leader | The US Episcopal church stunned Christians across the world last night by unexpectedly electing the first woman primate in the Anglican church. (The Guardian, UK)
   
   
2. Bishop will face 'difficult' mission | As Episcopalians struggle with deep divisions, the denomination's first presiding female bishop takes the reins. Some cheer, but others are worried. (St. Petersburg Times)
   
   
3. Woman is named Episcopal leader | The Episcopal Church elected Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Nevada as its presiding bishop on Sunday, making her the first woman to lead a church in the worldwide Anglican Communion. (The New York Times)
   
   
4. Bio of Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori | Oceanographer, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle; Ordained, 1994; assistant rector Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan and dean of Good Samaritan School of Theology in Corvallis, Ore.; consecrated bishop of Nevada, 2001; Voted to confirm first openly gay bishop, 2003. Member, Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. (Associated Press)
   
   
5. Bishop chosen 1st female Episcopal leader | Episcopal Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori has tackled male-dominated fields before as an oceanographer and a pilot. Now, she is taking on an even broader challenge as the first woman in the world to lead an Anglican province. (Associated Press)
   
   
6. Episcopal Church names 1st woman leader | The U.S. Episcopal Church chose Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on Sunday as its first woman leader, a move unprecedented in the Anglican church and one likely to produce more turmoil in a faith divided over the ordination of an openly gay bishop. (Reuters)
   
   
7. Nevada Episcopalians hail leadership vote | Nevada Episcopalians are hailing their bishop's selection as the national denomination's top official. (Associated Press)
   
   
8. For some, 'a period of adjustment' | Growing up in Ocala, Gigi Conner never imagined her church would ordain a woman, much less elect one as presiding bishop to lead her denomination. (The Tampa Tribune)
   
   
9. Church tribunal free to look at female bishops | Sydney Anglicans have failed in their attempt to stall the church's chief legal authority from considering the vexed question of female bishops, as key Australian conservatives have condemned the US election of the denomination's first female primate. (Syndey Morning Herald)
   
   
10. Glass ceiling for the pulpit? | Women atop 2 national denominations; gains at local level come slowly (Charlotte Observer)
    
    
11. It's a girl! | The election of a woman to head the American Episcopal Church is a challenge to purity movements that seek to exclude gays and other "outcasts." (Salon.com)
    
    
12. Anglicans' first lady threatens church unity | A woman has been elected as the first female leader of the US Anglican church in a historic but divisive development that could hasten the break-up of the worldwide denomination. (Sydney Morning Herald, Australia)
    
    
13. Episcopal leader calls for move past gay debate | As Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori makes clear her priorities, some conservatives see her selection to lead the U.S. church as divisive. (Los Angeles Times)
    
    
14. U.S. vote triggers more trouble for Anglicans | Anglicans faced a new crisis on Monday after the U.S. branch of the church elected a liberal female leader who said she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God. (Reuters)
    
    
15. New US church leader says homosexuality no sin | Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender. (Reuters)
    
    

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