GC81 Daily Digest, June 26: Indigenous boarding schools forum, presiding bishop election

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Indianapolis Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, right, speaks with her predecessor, the Rt. Rev. Catherine Waynick, left, while they prepare to leave the Kentucky International Conference Center in downtown Louisville to walk to nearby Christ Church Cathedral to vote for The Episcopal Church’s 28th presiding bishop. June 26, 2024. Photo: Shireen Korkzan/Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal News Service — Louisville, Kentucky] The 81st General Convention continues to meet at the Kentucky International Convention Center. Legislative committees are still holding 7 a.m. meetings and the House of Deputies is meeting in a legislative session while the House of Bishops is gathered at Christ Church Cathedral to elect the 28th presiding bishop.

The latter is today’s big news with full ENS coverage is to come.

You can find full, regularly updated ENS coverage here. The ENS primer, or everything you need to follow the 81st General Convention, is here.

A lot can happen on any given day at General Convention. News that doesn’t make it into a full story gets filed into our daily digest. Here are some dispatches from June 24.

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