Bonnie Anderson is the current president of the House of Deputies in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Jointly with the Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, she is the most senior figure in the Episcopal Church. Elected in 2006 (vice-president in 2003) and re-elected in 2009, she is from the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, where she has served as Canon to the Ordinary and President of the Standing Commission.
Anderson holds honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from the Episcopal Divinity School and the University of the South (Sewanee), as well as honorary Doctor of Canon Law degrees from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and the General Theological Seminary.
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