Katharine Jefferts Schori, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Katharine Jefferts Schori

Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1954

Place of Birth: Pensacola, Florida, United States

Profession: priest, oceanographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Katharine Jefferts Schori (born March 26, 1954) is the former Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church of the United States.
Previously elected as the 9th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada, she was the first woman elected as a primate in the Anglican Communion.
Jefferts Schori was elected at the 75th General Convention on June 18, 2006, and invested at Washington National Cathedral on November 4, 2006 and continued until November 1, 2015, when Michael Bruce Curry was invested in the position.
She took part in her first General Convention of the Episcopal Church as Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church in July 2009.