| LC control no. | no 96016417 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Harris, Barbara C. (Barbara Clementine) |
| Variant(s) | Harris, Barbara Clementine, 1930-2020 |
| Associated place | Massachusetts Washington (D.C.) Boston (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1930-06-12 |
| Death date | 2020-03-13 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Lincoln (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Pastoral theology Church polity Public relations Civil rights |
| Affiliation | Episcopal Church Joseph V. Baker Associates, Inc. Sun Oil Company |
| Profession or occupation | Priests Bishops Executives Public relations personnel Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Beyond Powershift, 1993 : t.p. (Barbara C. Harris, Suffragan Bishop, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts) p. 10 (Barbara Clementine Harris, b. Philadelphia; president of Joseph V. Baker Associates in 1949; ordained in 1980) OCLC, 2-28-96 (hdg.: Harris, Barbara C.; Harris, Barbara Clementine, 1930- ; usage: Barbara C. Harris; Barbara Clementine Harris) Wikipedia, 4 Nov. 2016 (Barbara Harris (bishop); Barbara Clementine Harris; The Right Reverend Barbara Harris; b. 12 June 1930 in Philadelphia, PA; ordained deacon in 1979 and priest in 1980 by Bishop Lyman Ogilby of Pennsylvania; first woman consecrated bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, in 1989; served as Bishop Suffragan in the Diocese of Massachusetts 1989-2003 and Assisting Bishop in the Diocese of Washington 2003-2007; served as president of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company) article "Philadelphia Eleven" (Barbara C. Harris, who would later become the first woman bishop of the Episcopal Church, was senior warden at Philadelphia's Church of the Advocate, served as crucifer for the ordination service) Washington post WWW site, viewed March 17, 2020 (in obituary dated March 16, 2020: The Right Rev. Barbara C. Harris, a public relations executive who marched for civil rights before finding a midlife calling in the ministry, becoming the first woman ordained as a bishop in the Episcopal Church and worldwide Anglican Communion, died March 13 in Lincoln, Mass. She was 89. Rev. Harris had been ordained a bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and was based out of Boston for most of the past three decades, aside from several years in the District as an assistant bishop for the Diocese of Washington. Rev. Harris helped register black voters in the South, participated in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery and became president of Joseph V. Baker Associates, one of the country's first black-owned PR firms. All the while, she was active in the Episcopal Church, serving as a prison chaplain and lay leader before heeding a call to ordained ministry in the 1970s. Barbara Clementine Harris was born in Philadelphia on June 12, 1930. Rev. Harris studied at the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism in Philadelphia before joining Baker Associates. She had risen to become the company's president by 1968, when she left to join Sun Oil (now Sunoco) as a community relations consultant. She later headed the oil company's PR department before turning to ministry. Rev. Harris was suffragan bishop in Massachusetts for 13 years before retiring in 2002. She continued preaching until shortly before her death) |
| Associated language | eng |
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