Assistant To Join Ecumenical Office
Episcopal News Service. June 5, 1986 [86124]
NEW YORK (DPS, June 5) -- Presiding Bishop Edmond Lee Browning has named the Rev. Elizabeth Zarelli Turner to the post of assistant ecumenical officer at the Episcopal Church Center.
In announcing the appointment, the Rev. William Norgren, ecumenical officer, and the Rev. Henry Male, president of the Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers, said that Turner would be responsible for work with the ecumenical network and for editing the Ecumenical Bulletin. She also will be involved in preparations for the centennial celebration of the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral. The four-point formulary that is a keystone in Anglican ecumenism will be marked with a national gathering in Chicago next year.
Turner, until now assistant rector of Church of the Redeemer, Cincinnati, earned her baccalaureate degree from Seattle Pacific University and her M.Div. degree from the General Theological Seminary, both with honors. She also holds a master's degree from Yale Divinity School. Before entering General, she served three years as a chaplain at Seattle Pacific.
Norgren, noted that her "appointment gives us an opportunity to be reminded that the ecumenical and ecclesiological issues of the ministry of women in the church need to be discussed openly, increasingly and seriously with the major Christian traditions."