[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 136 (Thursday, October 11, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H6507]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  THE RIGHT REVEREND JANE HOLMES DIXON

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, the House is pleased to welcome the Right 
Reverend Jane Holmes Dixon who delivered the prayer this morning.
  Bishop Dixon was named Bishop of Washington pro tempore, and will be 
the ecclesiastic authority during the search and transition for the 
eighth bishop of Washington. She has been suffragan bishop of the 
Episcopal Diocese of Washington. She is a native of Winona, 
Mississippi, and only the second woman to hold the Office of Bishop in 
the Episcopal Church.
  All were moved after hearing Bishop Dixon at the service at 
Washington National Cathedral a few days after the September 11 attack 
on our country. This wife, this mother, this grandmother, presides over 
the diocese of the District of Columbia and four Maryland counties. She 
became a priest in 1982 and has served in churches in Maryland and 
Virginia. She got her doctorate of divinity in 1993 from the Virginia 
Theological Seminary.
  Bishop Dixon not only serves her church, she serves her community, 
she serves on the theology and urban affairs committees of the House of 
Bishops, she is president of the Board of the Interfaith Alliance. She 
is a member of a board of the Fair Housing Council of Greater 
Washington and a member of the Women's Forum of Washington, D.C. Bishop 
Dixon has been selected by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the 100 
most influential women in the Washington, D.C. area. Bishop Jane Holmes 
Dixon, churchwoman, citizen.

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