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Presiding Bishop Michael Curry was installed on Sunday as the first black leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church.
Curry previously served as the eleventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and in June of 2000, he was consecrated in Duke Chapel at Duke University.
During Curry sermon on Sunday he urged Episcopalians to evangelize by crossing divides of race, education and wealth. Curry used the example of his own mother being given Communion at a white Episcopal parish before desegregation, and how that act persuaded his father to join the denomination, and eventually become a priest.
“God has not given up on the world and God is not finished with the Episcopal Church yet,” Curry said, during a joyous ceremony in the Washington National Cathedral.
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