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November 18, 1999

Black Clergy Conference Celebrates Shared Past, Plans for Future

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Episcopal News Service
Mary W. Cox, Acting Communications Coordinator for the Diocese of Southeast FloridaTerrence A. Taylor, Chair of the Diocesan Commission on Racism, Justice and Reconciliation

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Black Clergy Conference participants lay hands on a new bishop (99-172). Wendell Gibbs , Jr., who was elected bishop of Michigan two days before the start of the 5th Triennial Black Episcopal Clergy Conference in October, receives the laying on of hands for healing and empowerment during the final Eucharist of the conference. (Episcopal News Service photo by Nick & Pat Studio)