Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Progressives' Progress - A New Role for John Bunyan Fans

 

Elected in 2023, the President of the Unitarian Universalist Association is the Rev. Sofía Betancourt, Ph. D. Yale University


Rev. Megan Rohrer, who made history last year as the first openly transgender bishop of any mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S., resigned on June 4, 2022, amid accusations of racism for their actions in dismissing a Latino pastor in 2021.




ELCA Bishops, the current total -


2023 – 36 of 66 bishops are female (55%)

  1. Wilma Kucharek (2002)
  2. Elizabeth Eaton (2007)
  3. Shelley Wickstrom (2012)
  4. Ann Svennungsen (2012)
  5. Tracie Bartholomew (2013)
  6. Suzanne Darcy Dillahunt (2013)
  7. Patricia Lull (2014)
  8. Katherine Finnegan (2017)
  9. Deborah Hutterer (2018)
  10. Patricia Davenport (2018)
  11. Idalia Negrón (2018)
  12. Laurie Skow-Anderson (2018)
  13. Sue Briner (2018)
  14. Lorna Halaas (2019)
  15. Laurie Larson Caesar (2019)
  16. Shelley Bryan Wee (2019)
  17. Regina Hassanally (2019)
  18. Constanze Hagmaier (2019)
  19. Laurie Jungling (2019)
  20. Susan Candea (2019)
  21. Leila Ortiz (2019)
  22. Ginny Aebischer (2020 SC)
  23. Amy Current (2020 SE IA)
  24. Tessa Moon Leiseth (2020 E ND)
  25. Amy Odgren (2020 NE MN)
  26. Joy Mortensen-Wiebe (2020 SC WI)
  27. Laura Barbins (2020 NE Ohio)
  28. Anne Edison-Albright (2020 E Central WI)
  29. Brenda Bos (2021, SW CA)
  30. Paula Schmitt (2021, Allegheny)
  31. Dee Pederson (2021, SW MN)
  32. Staci Fidlar (2022, Northern IL)
  33. Clair Burkat (2022, Interim Bishop in the Sierra Pacific Synod)
  34. Meggan Manlove (2023, NW Intermountain)
  35. Becca Midweek-Conlin (2023, Arkansas/Oklahoma)
  36. Phyllis Milton (2023, Virginia)