“I feel like the Holy Spirit is on the move” in the LDS-dominated state, says Rev, Phyllis Spiegel as she embraces her new role.
To the tune of hymns and and the words of prayer, Utah Episcopalians welcomed the Rev. Phyllis Spiegel as the 12th bishop of the Diocese of Utah on Saturday.
Spiegel is the second woman to head the state’s oldest Protestant denomination and most recently served as rector at St. Anne Episcopal Church in Ohio. She was officially consecrated as Utah’s bishop in a Capitol Theatre ceremony surrounded by her congregation.
The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the former presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church in the U.S., presided over the ceremony as chief consecrator.