Katharine Jefferts Schori

Katharine Jefferts Schori 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, meaning she was the first woman to lead a national church body in the Anglican tradition. 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.