Rev. Dorothy Sanders Wells, a native of Mobile, Ala., sits on a stage at St. Andrew's Episcopal School campus in Ridgeland, Miss., Friday, July 19, 2024, before being formally installed Saturday as the first woman and first Black person to hold the post of bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The new bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi is being formally installed Saturday, and she is first woman and first Black person to hold the post.
