Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church will visit Southeast Florida April 15-17, 2008

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, 26th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, will visit the Diocese of Southeast Florida April 15-17.
She will be celebrant and preacher at a Mass at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, 141 South County Rd., Palm Beach, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, and at a similar service the following evening, April 16, at 6 p.m., at Trinity Cathedral, 464 NE 16 St., Miami. Each of these services will be followed by a question and answer session and will be open to the public.
The Presiding Bishop and the Rt. Rev. Leo Frade, bishop of Southeast Florida, will be available to the media at Bethesda-by-the-Sea from 3 to 3:30 p.m. on April 15, and at Trinity Cathedral from 3:30 to 4 p.m. on April 16.
On Thursday, April 17, the Presiding Bishop will visit three Miami churches that exemplify the diversity of the Episcopal Church in Southeast Florida:

9 a.m. Historic St. Agnes, 1750 NW 3 Ave., and the Villas of St. Agnes, an affordable housing development built by the parish in collaboration with a coalition of faith-based, public and private groups.

• 10:15 a.m. St. Paul et les Martyrs d’Haiti, 6744 North Miami Avenue, the oldest Haitian Episcopal congregation in the United States.

• 11:30 a.m. Todos los Santos, 1023 SW 27 Ave, the first Cuban Episcopal congregation in Miami.

The Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida includes 83 congregations, with approximately 38,000 parishioners, from Key West north to Jensen Beach and west to Clewiston. The majority of our churches hold services in English, but we also have a number of congregations that worship in Spanish or French/Creole.

The mission of the Diocese of Southeast Florida is to make known to all people the transforming power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, including ALL, excluding none.

Our main diocesan office is at 525 NE 15 Street, Miami, with satellite offices in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Our diocesan cathedral, Trinity Cathedral, is located at Bayshore Drive and the Venetian Causeway, north and east of the Performing Arts Center in downtown Miami.

For more information on our congregations and ministries, go to www.diosef.org or www.episcopalsouthflorida.org.

For information on The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, go to http://www.episcopalchurch.org/presiding-bishop.htm

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