Sunday, May 23, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Mary Glasspool
Mary Glasspool was consecrated May 15, 2010, she is the diocese's first-and the Episcopal Church's second-gay, partnered bishop. Glasspool, 55, had told a May 14, 2010 gathering of media that the service
"is a benchmark for the whole church.""We are being the church that we say we are," she added. "We're not
just saying it, we're doing it and there's something very powerful about that. It's bigger than the both of us. So I'm looking forward with great awe as well as joy and some 'wow' to whatever the Holy Spirit has in mind."
The daughter of a priest, she had served congregations in Maryland, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and for the past years had served as canon to the bishops in the Baltimore-based Diocese of Maryland. Her life partner of 19 years is Becki Sander, who holds degrees in theology and social work.
Diane Bruce
Diane Bruce was consecrated bishop suffragan in the Diocese Los Angeles May 15, 2010.
Bruce, 53, told the May 14 media conference that she anticipated the moment her stepmother would place the miter on her head as a "very emotional one ... because I lost my father on Maundy Thursday (April
1)." The miter, she explained, is a gift from her father and his wife.
A popular preacher and well-known priest, Bruce, who served a dozen years in the Los Angeles diocese prior to her election, is a former Roman Catholic who joined the Episcopal Church in 1986. The former
banking executive, who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish and English, served for nine years as rector of St. Clement by-the-SeaChurch in San Clemente. She is married to Stephen Bruce; the couple has two adult children.
Bruce, 53, told the May 14 media conference that she anticipated the moment her stepmother would place the miter on her head as a "very emotional one ... because I lost my father on Maundy Thursday (April
1)." The miter, she explained, is a gift from her father and his wife.
A popular preacher and well-known priest, Bruce, who served a dozen years in the Los Angeles diocese prior to her election, is a former Roman Catholic who joined the Episcopal Church in 1986. The former
banking executive, who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish and English, served for nine years as rector of St. Clement by-the-SeaChurch in San Clemente. She is married to Stephen Bruce; the couple has two adult children.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Mary Glasspool and Diane Bruce
Consecrated in the Diocese of Los Angeles, May 15, 2010. Historical not only because a presiding bishop who is a woman is consecrating 2 women as bishops, but because Glasspool is openly lesbian.
(Will post them as individual entries as soon as I find photos of them in their pointy hats!)
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