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A Washington D.C. priest made history in Chicago Saturday, becoming the first Black person and the first woman ever elected bishop of the city’s local arm of the Episcopal Church.
The Rev. Canon Paula E. Clark was unanimously selected among four candidates on the fourth ballot of a virtual convention to take the helm of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, church leaders said.
“We Episcopalians are strong people who can model for the rest of this country and the world what it looks like to walk the way of love,” Clark said. “God is calling us to a new day and a new way of being.”