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The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey D. Lee, Bishop of Chicago
On November 10, 2007 the 170th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Chicago elected the Rev. Jeffrey D. Lee, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Medina, Washington as the 12th Bishop of Chicago. Lee succeeds the Rt. Rev. William D. Persell who resigned office effective with Lee's consecration on February 2, 2008, and then retired after nine years as Bishop of Chicago.
Bishop Lee was ordained and consecrated as the 12th Bishop of Chicago on Saturday, February 2, 2008 at the House of Hope Arena, 752 E. 114th Street, Chicago; and seated as diocesan bishop in St. James Cathedral on Sunday February 3, 2008.
Lee is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Nashotah House Seminary, and was ordained priest in the Diocese of Northern Indiana in 1985. After serving there as curate and then canon to the ordinary and church developer, Lee was called as rector of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in River Hills, Wisconsin in 1994. Six years later he accepted the call to Medina, Washington. |
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Lee is the author of Opening the Prayer Book in the New Church's Teaching Series; a member of the faculty of CREDO Institute; and has served on the boards of the North American Association of the Diaconate, the Council of Associated Parishes, and Affirming Catholicism. He has served as deputy to the 2000 and 2006 General Convention of The Episcopal Church. In 2008 he became an associate of the Society of St. John the Evangelist.
He and his wife Lisa Rogers Lee have two children: Katherine and Jonathan.
Email Bishop Lee at bishop@episcopalchicago.org
To schedule visitations or arrange appointments with Bishop Lee contact his administrative assistant, Anne Cothran, at (312) 751-4217.
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Homecoming
A Message for Christmas and Epiphany 2009-2010
Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ in this Christmas and Epiphany season in the Church. In many parts of Latin America and this country, Christians celebrate Las Posadas, which is a way of observing the days leading up to the Christmas feast from December 16 to December 24. The custom is for families to travel between homes. Different roles — the part of Joseph, the part of Mary, the part of the innkeeper — taken up by different members of the community. Joseph and Mary go from house to house looking for a place, looking for the inn as Luke's gospel tells us, where the baby Jesus might be born. Until at last they find the designated house where the party is to be held and where the birth of Jesus can be celebrated fully.
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That homecoming is the theme I want to hold out to you in this Christmas and Epiphany season. Christ finding a homein our hearts. We look for Christ where Christ has made his home, in the hearts of our sisters and brothers across our communities and across the globe. At our recent Diocesan Convention, three new congregations found a home here in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, and we rejoice and welcome them completely into the family. We recognize the presence of Christ in one another, in them. And we celebrate the many ways that Jesus Christ has come among us.
This Christmas season I invite you to find a home for Jesus in all those places in the world, perhaps particularly the places where you might be inclined least likely to look for him, in the homeless, the hungry, in those who are lonely, those who find themselves on the margins of this world. Find Jesus Christ there. Look for him. Knock on the door. And when you find him, serve him, and welcome him, and thank him for his great love.
Merry Christmas and happy Epiphany in this season of the church's year.
Jeffrey D. Lee
Bishop of Chicago
Illustration: "God's Heart" by Friedrich Peter. Published in the Salt of the Earth—A Christian Seasons Calendar. |
Information on the Ordination and Consecration
chicago's bishops
The Rt. Rev. William D. Persell, 11th Bishop of Chicago
The Rt. Rev. Victor A. Scantlebury, Assistant Bishop of Chicago
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