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First woman Anglican bishop is Luccock visitor at Divinity School

Bishop Barbara Harris, the first woman to be ordained a bishop in the Episcopal Church and in the worldwide Anglican Communion, is the 2010 Luccock Visitor at Yale Divinity School.

Harris will deliver a talk, free and open to the public, on “Re-visioning the Church,” on March 24, 12:30 pm in the Common Room at Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, 409 Prospect St., New Haven.

The ordination of Harris as a bishop in the Diocese of Massachusetts in 1989 created a firestorm among Anglicans around the globe at the time but ultimately paved the way for other women to follow suit both in the Episcopal Church and in some Anglican churches abroad.

From 2003-07 Harris served as an assisting bishop in the Diocese of Washington.  She is a member of the Union of Black Episcopalians and a past president of the Episcopal Urban Caucus and has represented the Episcopal Church on the board of the Prisoner Visitation and Support Committee.  She was a member of the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Anglican and International Peace with Justice Concerns and also served as executive director of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company and as publisher of The Witness magazine.  Harris is a past vice president of Episcopal City Mission, an independent agency of the Diocese of Massachusetts working for and on behalf of the urban poor. She has received honorary degrees from numerous colleges, universities and theological schools, including Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.

The Luccock Visitorship was established in 1963 in memory of Halford E. Luccock, who served as professor in the Divinity School from 1928 to 1953. The Luccock Visitor, usually a parish minister, is invited to spend time at Yale Divinity School interacting with faculty and students.