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Frank Tracy Griswold III was the 25th
Presiding Bishop and
Primate of the
Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Bishop Griswold was educated at
St Paul's School in
Concord,
New Hampshire and earned an
AB in English literature from
Harvard College (
1959). He attended the
General Theological Seminary and earned his
BA in
theology and
MA from
Oriel College,
Oxford University (
1962,
1966). He has received honorary degrees from the
General Theological Seminary,
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary,
Nashotah House,
Sewanee, The University of the South and
Berkeley Divinity School. Griswold was ordained an episcopal priest in 1963 and then served at three parishes in Pennsylvania, including St Andrews Church in Yardley, Pennsylvania, and St Martin-in-the-Fields in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1976 until his nomination as Bishop of Chicago. Griswold served as
bishop of Chicago from 1987 until he became presiding bishop in 1997.
Griswold was co-chair of the
Anglican-
Roman Catholic International Commission from
1998 to
2003, and a member of the standing committee for the
1998 Lambeth Conference. He has also served on diocesan, national and international committees for liturgy, worship and ecumenism. He is also a member of the
Fellowship of the Society of St John the Evangelist and is known to have Anglo-Catholic tendencies.
His term as presiding bishop ended on
November 1,
2006. He was replaced by the Most Revd
Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first woman primate in the Anglican Communion. She was elected by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
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