Indian Elected Bishop
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<i> Associated Press</i>
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For the second time in a year, an American Indian has been elected an Episcopal bishop. The Rev. Steven Charleston, 41, an Oklahoma-born Choctaw, was elected bishop of Alaska.
Another American Indian, Steven Plummer, was elected a year ago as bishop of Navajoland, a mission diocese based in Farmington, N.M., covering Navajo reservations in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
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