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(RNS) “He’s like the Joe Biden of the Episcopal Church. He has the personality and respect that can bring people together.”

– The Rev. Susan Russell, an Episcopal priest at All Saint’s Church in Pasadena, Calif., Pasadena, describing the Very Rev. Gary Hall, the new dean of Washington National Cathedral, who previously worked at her church. She was quoted by The Washington Post.