RIP: Bishop Edmond Lee Browning, 24th Presiding Bishop

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Episcopal News Network

[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs, Episcopal News Service] Bishop Edmond Lee Browning, the 24th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, died on July 11, 2016. He was 87 years old and was living in Oregon.

Browning served as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1986-1997. Browning’s election as presiding bishop in 1986 was seen as a reflection of the church’s broadening diversity due to his extensive international and multicultural experience.

Browning hoped to encourage a growing awareness of diversity in the church. He was well-known for his quote, “no outcasts in the church.”

“The Episcopal Church is faithfully seeking to truly become, ‘a house of prayer for all people,’ as Jesus said quoting the Hebrew prophets, and that is greatly the case because Presiding Bishop Browning taught us that the church must be a place where there are no outcasts,”

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2016/07/11/rip-bishop-edmond-lee-browning-24th-presiding-bishop/

May he rest in peace and rise in glory! Amen!

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1. Godspeed.

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2. I remember him

I sang at a service where is was the chief celebrant, once. Nice guy