Seattle Priest Elected Bishop Of Canadian Diocese

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The Anglican district of New Westminster, embracing British Columbia's edge mainland, overdue week classless a Seattle priest, the Rev. Canon Melissa Skelton, as its new bishop.

Skelton will be the at first beast and the at first Attached States neighborhood to essential the district, based in Vancouver but named for its payment. She succeeds the Rt. Rev. Michael Ingham, bishop for two decades, who dealt with the defiance of parochial and Chinese-Canadian congregations while he became the at first Anglican bishop in Canada to ban the blessing of same-sex unions.

Skelton has been cleric (high priest) of St. Paul's Episcopal Church on edge Queen Anne, a district hope for established for any its abundance and exalt that expresses the catholic tradition in the Episcopal Church.

She told the Vancouver Sun that St. Paul's has fascinated worshipers "hurt" by other Christian denominations. They are, she alleged, "thoroughly evangelicals looking for beauty and mystery."

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