Who was the African-American woman that succeeded Catherine Waynick as bishop?
Catherine Waynick Catherine Elizabeth Maples "Cate" Waynick (born November 13, 1948) is an American Anglican bishop. She was the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis from 1997 to 2017. She was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis in January 1997, was consecrated on June 7 of that year, and became the Diocesan Bishop on September 10, 1997. She succeeded Edward Witker Jones, who served from 1978 to 1997. At the 2015 Diocesan Convention, Bishop Waynick announced plans to retire, and called for the election of a new bishop to be consecrated in 2017. She was succeeded by Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows on April 29, 2017.
Alexander Preston Shaw Alexander Preston Shaw was notable as an African-American pastor, editor, and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church. He was elected and consecrated to the Episcopacy in 1936. Bishop Shaw held the distinction of being the first African-American Bishop of The Methodist Church (at the age of 71) to preside full-time over a predominantly white Annual Conference: the Southern California-Arizona Conference (in 1950, coincidentally the 100th annual meeting of this body), which met that year at the University of Redlands.