US Bishops Participate in Consecration of Sweden's First Woman Bishop
Episcopal News Service. November 13, 1997 [97-2004H]
(ENS) Bishop Mary Adelia McLeod of Vermont and Bishop Suffragan Barbara Harris of Massachusetts were among the representatives sent by Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning to the recent consecration of Christina Odenberg as the first woman bishop in the Swedish national church. Harris, whose consecration in 1988 made her the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion, was one of the co-consecrators. McLeod, the first woman to be elected a diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church, offered the final blessing. The service was held in the Cathedral of Uppsala, the largest cathedral in Scandinavia, consecrated in 1435. Among the worshippers were 26 bishops representing Lutheran and Anglican churches in Sweden, Norway, Finland, East Germany, Germany, Sudan, Jerusalem, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Faeroe Islands, as well as the United States.