The Rev. Dorothy Sanders Wells, a native of Mobile, Ala., sits on a stage at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Campus in Ridgeland, Miss., Friday, July 19, before being formally installed as the first woman and first black person to hold the post of bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi.
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Mississippi’s new Episcopal bishop is first woman, first Black person in role
The new bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi was formally installed Saturday, and she is the first woman and first Black person to hold the post.
