Saint Augustine's College Hosting Black Episcopal College Recognition

March 18, 2009

For Immediate Release February 12, 2009
Contact: Crystal Roberts
Office: (919) 516.4190
Fax: (919) 516-4360
Email: ckroberts@st-aug.edu

Saint Augustine’s College Hosting Black Episcopal College Recognition
RALEIGH— Saint Augustine’s College will host a fitting tribute to its beginnings with A
Day of Recognition, in honor of the three historically black Episcopal colleges
established in the United States by the National Episcopal Church. A contingency of
students from the three cohort schools — Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, Saint
Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, Virginia, and Voorhees College in Denmark, S.C.— will
interface with each other about leadership and service. The event, in its third year, will
also feature a Presidents’ Panel consisting of the presidents from each of the
institutions. The keynote speaker on February 18 is The Right Reverend Michael B.
Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. The program will
culminate on February 19 with a performance by the combined College choirs.

The annual event began as an effort to “lift up the life and work of the historically
black colleges founded by the National Episcopal Church,” said Rev. William E. Maddox,
Chaplain for Saint Augustine’s College.

Alumni, students, and Episcopal church clergy and members are invited to attend.
The event is being sponsored by the Episcopal church office of Black Ministries
and the Association of Episcopal colleges under the auspices of Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori, the twenty-sixth Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.
The Most Rev. Jefferts Schori is chief pastor to the Episcopal Church's 2.4 million
members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses, ecumenical officer, and primate, joining
leaders of the other 38 Anglican Provinces in consultation for global good and
reconciliation. Jefferts Schori was elected at the 75th General Convention on June 18,
2006 and invested at Washington National Cathedral on November 4, 2006.

The National Episcopal Church also established Cuttington College in Liberia.

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