Lesbian priest makes list for Chicago bishop
Episcopalians have mixed opinions
By Manya A. Brachear
Chicago Tribune
August 29, 2007
Though global Anglican leaders have urged the U.S. church to unequivocally exclude gay bishops by next month, an openly lesbian Episcopal priest is among the five nominees for bishop of the Chicago diocese announced Tuesday.
Rev. Tracey Lind, who followed Chicago Bishop William Persell as dean of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, is one of three women named as finalists to replace Persell, who plans to resign after his successor is installed. It is the first slate of candidates in the diocese to include women.
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Sacerdote lesbiana es candidata a obispo episcopal de Chicago
HoustonChronicle.com en Español
Aug. 28, 2007
La Diócesis Episcopal de Chicago incluyó el martes a una sacerdote lesbiana declarada en su lista de nominados a obispo mientras que los feligreses anglicanos exigen que la Iglesia prohíba los obispos homosexuales.
La reverendo Tracey Lind, rectora de la Catedral Trinity en Cleveland, quien tiene una pareja mujer, estará en la papeleta del 10 de noviembre.
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Illinois: Lesbian Is a Finalist for Bishop
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
The New York Times
August 29, 2007
An openly lesbian priest is one of five candidates nominated by a search committee to be the next Episcopal bishop of Chicago. The nomination of the priest, the Very Rev. Tracey Lind, dean of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, came as a surprise because the Episcopal Church passed a resolution at its last general convention calling on dioceses to “exercise restraint” by not consecrating any more openly gay bishops. The Episcopal Church has been under pressure from fellow churches in the Anglican Communion to declare a moratorium on gay bishops, a response to the election in 2003 of an openly gay bishop by the Diocese of New Hampshire. The election in the Diocese of Chicago is Nov. 10.
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