A Washington D.C. priest made historical past in Chicago Saturday, turning into the primary Black individual and the primary lady ever elected bishop of town’s native arm of the Episcopal Church. The Rev. Canon Paula E. Clark used to be unanimously decided on amongst 4 applicants at the fourth poll of a digital conference to take the helm of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, church leaders stated. “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 stated. “God is calling us to a new day and a new way of being.” Clark might be consecrated April 24, succeeding Bishop