Consecration set for first Black leader of Episcopal Dicocese of Arkansas

John Toga Wea Harmon to be ordained as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas

January 6, 2024 at 2:45 a.m.

John Harmon, who grew up attending the Episcopal Church in Liberia and immigrated to the U.S. following a violent coup, will be consecrated today as the 14th bishop of the Arkansas Episcopal Diocese.
(Courtesy of Rod Lewis) — John Harmon, who grew up attending the Episcopal Church in Liberia and immigrated to the U.S. following a violent coup, will be consecrated today as the 14th bishop of the Arkansas Episcopal Diocese. (Courtesy of Rod Lewis)

John Toga Wea Harmon, a priest from the diocese of Washington, D.C., will be ordained and consecrated today as a bishop in Christ's One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church during a ceremony at the Episcopal Collegiate School in Little Rock.

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