Woman Nominated as Church Council Leader
The Rev. Patricia A. McClurg, a Presbyterian minister, and the Very Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, an Orthodox priest, have been nominated as president and president-elect respectively of the National Council of Churches.
If the council’s Governing Board, meeting Nov. 4-6 in Jacksonville, Fla., follows its usual procedure and elects the nominees for the unpaid, two-year terms, it will mark the first time that an ordained woman minister will have served as president of the 37-year-old organization. The late Cynthia Wedel, an Episcopal Church laywoman, served as council president from 1969 to 1972.
If Kishkovsky becomes president in 1990, as anticipated, he will be the first member of an Orthodox church to head the 32-member council, which is headquartered in New York. Kishkovsky is the ecumenical officer of the Orthodox Church in America.
The Rev. Arie R. Brouwer, a Reformed Church in America clergyman, has been nominated for a second, four-year term as the council’s general secretary, a salaried position.
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