The Most Reverend Michael Curry is not the first African American bishop in the Episcopal church in America. He is the first African American to be made presiding bishop of that church, which consecrated its first African American bishop in 1874 (“Black American bishop will give the address at royal wedding”, News, last week, page 3).
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