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The Right Reverend Leontine Kelly
Methodist bishop
"One of the things I?m proudest of -- besides my children -? is how I tried to humanize the cabinet [of ministers] and help them to come to know one another better as persons. For women, it?s more than getting things done, it?s getting to know one another, being comfortable with each other. When I dealt with pastors as a bishop, I related to them as people. Being a woman pastor was an amazing way for me to pull women together and say that we are here and we have a right to the same appointments as men."
Retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church, Bishop Kelly was elected to the episcopacy in 1984, becoming the second woman and first African American woman to be elected bishop of any major denomination.
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