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Barbara Harris
D.D., S.T.D. |
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Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts |
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Church | Episcopal Church |
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Diocese | Diocese of Massachusetts |
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Elected | September 24, 1988 |
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In office | 1989–2003 |
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Successor | Gayle Elizabeth Harris |
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Other posts | Assisting Bishop of Washington (2003–2007) |
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Orders |
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Ordination | September 29, 1979 (deacon) October 18, 1980 (priest) by Lyman Ogilby |
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Consecration | February 12, 1989 by Edmond L. Browning |
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Personal details |
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Born | (1930-06-12)June 12, 1930 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
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Died | (2020-03-13)March 13, 2020 Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States |
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Nationality | American |
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Denomination | Anglican |
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Parents | Walter Harris & Beatrice Waneidah Price |
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Spouse | Raymond Rollins (m.1960 - div.1963) |
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Education | Philadelphia High School for Girls |
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Alma mater | Villanova University |
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Barbara Clementine Harris (June 12, 1930--March 13, 2020) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church. She was the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
Contents
1 Early years and education
2 Ordination
3 Election as bishop
4 Camp and conference center
5 References
6 Sources
6.1 Biographies
7 External links
Early years and education
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Harris attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls (Class of 1948). There, she excelled in music and wrote a weekly column for the Philadelphia version of the Pittsburgh Courier called "High School Notes by Bobbi". The alumnae association of Philadelphia High School for Girls has recognized her as an outstanding alumna for her professional work, and she has been installed in its court of honor.
After graduation from high school, Harris attended the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism in Philadelphia, where she earned a certificate in 1950. She later attended Villanova University, the Urban Theology Unit in Sheffield, England, and also graduated from the Pennsylvania Foundation for Pastoral Counseling.
Prior to her ordination to the priesthood, Harris served as head of public relations for the Sun Oil Company.
Harris has long been active in civil rights issues, participating in freedom rides and marches in the 1960s, including the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.. She spent summer vacations registering black voters in Greenville, Mississippi. She dismissed the risks she took, saying only, "Everyone was in danger."
Throughout her various careers, Harris has been noted for her liberal views and her outspokenness. As early as 1989 she was reported as arguing for gay rights and lambasting the Episcopal Church for racism and sexism.
Ordination
Her rector at the Church of the Advocate on the north side of Philadelphia, Paul Washington, became convinced of Harris's serious interest in seeking holy orders, and recommended her to Lyman C. Ogilby of Pennsylvania. Ogilby ordained her as a deacon in 1979 and a priest in 1980. She served as an acolyte in the service in which the first eleven women were ordained priests in the Episcopal Church on July 29, 1974. She was the priest-in-charge of St. Augustine of Hippo Church in Norristown, Pennsylvania, from 1980 to 1984, served as chaplain to the Philadelphia County prisons, and also as counsel to industrial corporations for public policy issues and social concerns. She was named executive director of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company in 1984, and publisher of The Witness magazine. In 1988 she served as interim rector of the Church of the Advocate.
Election as bishop
Harris was ordained bishop suffragan of the 98,000 member Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts on February 11, 1989. As the first woman ordained as a bishop, and as an African American, she received death threats and obscene messages. Though urged to wear a bulletproof vest to her ordination, she refused. A contingent of the Boston police were assigned to her consecration. Her comment was merely, "I don't take this in a personal way." The traditionalist Episcopal Synod of America was formed in reaction to her consecration.
Speaking of her work as bishop, Harris said, "I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman ... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."
Harris retired from this position in Boston in 2003. She was succeeded as bishop suffragan by another African-American woman, Gayle Elizabeth Harris.
Harris served as Assisting Bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC, until 2007, and as president of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, publishers of The Witness magazine.
In 2010, Harris suffered a stroke at her home in Massachusetts. She appears to have made a full recovery and preached at an ecumenical worship service in the historic Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, on September 5, 2010. Her sermon was entitled "It Isn't Easy Being Green".
Camp and conference center
The Barbara C. Harris Camp & Conference Center is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts located in Greenfield, New Hampshire. The center is named in honor of Harris. A task force was convened in 1997 to explore the potential of the center and their recommendation to proceed with the development of the center was approved by the diocesan council in 1998. From 1999 to 2002, the development of the center was under the direction of diocesan staff. In addition, over 200 lay and clergy volunteers lent their time, energy, and expertise to the project, working in a variety of roles. An extensive fund-raising campaign took place in order to finance the construction and to fund a scholarship endowment and an operating endowment. The center welcomed its first summer campers in July 2003.
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