Holy Catherine Icon presented to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori April 22, 2007 at Trinity Cathedral. Photo by Danny Bronson

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori poses with the gift icon "Hagia Aekatarina" based on an original icon of St. Catherine of Alexandria now housed in St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai, Egypt. The icon is being held by Master Iconographer Sherry Lynch and Coordinator of the Trinity Iconography Institute Christopher J. Armstrong-Stevenson. Photo by Ginny Finch

Members of the Iconography Institute at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral presented Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori with a gift icon Hagia Aekatarina (Holy Catherine) on Sunday, April 22, at the Cathedral to honor her election and installation. The icon was carried into the sanctuary by Sherry Lynch, the Institute’s master iconographer and instructor along with Christopher Armstrong-Stevenson, the Institute’s coordinator, for blessing and the laying-on-of-hands by the entire congregation and clergy. In attendance were four retired Episcopal bishops: The Rt. Rev. William Ladehoff, the Rt. Rev. John Spofford, the Most Rev. Edmund Browning (retired presiding bishop) and the Rt. Rev. Rustin Kimsey. They joined the Rt. Rev. Johncy Itty, eighth bishop of the Diocese of Oregon and Bishop Paul Swanson, Oregon Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

For more information and a slideshow on the Hagia Aekatarina Eikon (Holy Catherine Icon) presented to the Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on April 22, click here.

For more information on the Iconography Institute at Trinity Cathedral and a schedule of classes, click here.