[Deseret News] The Episcopal Church has elected its first black presiding bishop and primate.
The Rt. Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina for the past 15 years, was overwhelmingly elected the church's 27th presiding bishop Saturday during its 78th General Convention underway in Salt Lake City.
The Rt. Rev. Curry, 62, described himself as "a follower of Jesus. I'm not a perfect one, but I want to be one of his disciples," he said at news conference late Saturday afternoon.
"I just look forward to serving and working for the cause of the Jesus movement in the world, to help this become a transformed world that I like to say looks more like God’s dream and less like our nightmare," he said.
The selection of a new presiding bishop is among the highlights of the faith's General Convention. The Rt. Rev. Curry will succeed the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, who did not seek a second term.
