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By Mimi Hanaoka
Sunday, June 18, 2006

95-93: The bishops’ vote that narrowly elected Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, of Nevada, on Sunday as the first female head of an Anglican Church.  She will be installed as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

7: Total number of candidates who were in the running for the position.

9: The number of years Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will serve as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

2003: The year the Episcopal Church in America elected the first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

2.3 million: Members the Episcopal Church.

1/4: The fraction of those members who are 65 years old or older.  

—Mimi Hanaoka
  

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