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Mary Adelia McLeod, the first woman to become a diocesan bishop in The Episcopal Church, has died at her home in Charleston, West Virginia on Wednesday at the age of 84.
She began her seminary studies around the time the church approved the ordination of women. She was elected to lead the Vermont Diocese in 1993.
Mary Adelia McLeod, the first woman to become a diocesan bishop in The Episcopal Church, has died at her home in Charleston, West Virginia on Wednesday at the age of 84.
[Diocese of Vermont] The Rt. Rev. Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, the first female diocesan bishop in the history of the Episcopal Church, died Oct. 12 at her home