Largest US Lutheran denomination to install Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop

“It hasn’t really hit me yet,” Curry told The Associated Press a week before his installation. “The fact that you’re a first.” Curry succeeds the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton, who served for 12 years and was the first woman to lead the ELCA. During Eaton’s tenure, Curry watched as the ELCA conference of b...

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