Did You Know…

Barbara C. Harris was ordained the first woman Bishop in the Episcopal Church on February 11,1989.

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A native of Philadelphia, Barbara Clementine Harris graduated from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism. She joined Joseph V. Baker Associates Inc., a national public relations firm headquartered in Philadelphia, in 1949. She was president of the firm in 1968 when she joined the Sun Company as community relations consultant. She later was named manager of community and urban affairs and headed Sun’s Public Relations Department from May 1973 until becoming a senior staff consultant at Sun’s corporate headquarters in January 1977.

    She attended Villanova University and studied at the Urban Theology Unit in Sheffield, England. She is also a graduate of the Pennsylvania Foundation for Pastoral Counseling. Ordained to the diaconate in September 1979, she was ordained a priest in 1980.

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