Original state of the Confederacy which has highest percent of African-American priests:Florida (5 percent)

Original state of the Confederacy with lowest percent of African-American priests: Arkansas (0 percent)

Percent of clergy (except bishops) in the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) who are African American: 3.4 percent

Percent of bishops in ECUSA who are African-American: 4 percent

Percent of U.S. citizens who are African-American: 12.3 percent

Percent of all clergy in ECUSA who are women: 17.4 percent

Percent of black clergy who are women: 13.2

Largest ECUSA congregation with an African-American rector?

It’s a tie: St. Agnes, Miami, Fla., Richard L. Marquess-Barry, rector; St. Alban’s the Martyr, St. Alban’s, N.Y., Bernard Young, rector.

Both congregations have 1,600—1,699 members.

Largest ECUSA parish whose rector is an African-American female? Grace Church, Silver Spring, Md., Janice M. Robinson, rector (900—1,000 members).

Percent of unmarried deputies to ECUSA’s 2003 General Convention:

10.1 percent.

Percent of unmarried priests in ECUSA: 12.8 percent

Percent of unmarried African-American priests in ECUSA: 3.6 percent

Percent of unmarried female priests in ECUSA: 27.8 percent

Percent of unmarried bishops in ECUSA: 6 percent

Number of diocesan bishops eligible to serve a full term of nine years if elected Presiding Bishop at General Convention in 2006: 49 (See list of those eligible at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/26thPBwho.html.)

In what sense does the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church also exercise real authority as the Bishop of Rome?

(See November 2002 issue for answer.)

Witness contributing editor Louie Crew, founder of Integrity and a longtime Episcopal Church leader (he currently sits on the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council and is head of the Diocese of Newark’s deputation to General Convention 2003) is a well-known collector and disseminator of statistics and little-known facts about the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion. His website is www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew; email him at LCREW@newark.rutgers.edu.