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Tue Dec 8, 2015, 10:36 PM Dec 2015

Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church resting after surgery.

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Prayers for Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry;

The head of the US Episcopal Church was hospitalised on Sunday with a bleed on his brain, church officials said, but he is expected to make a full recovery.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, the first black person to take on the role, preached at Bruton Parish Church in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia on December 6. Following the service, he was taken to hospital after struggling to recollect words.

He was diagnosed with a subdural hematoma and transferred to a hospital in Richmond where he was scheduled to have surgery today.


The church later said this evening that the surgery went well;

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry is resting comfortably following surgery in a Virginia hospital on Tuesday, December 8. According to the Presiding Bishop, his family, and his medical team, the surgery went well, as had been expected. Bishop Curry is alert and awake, and a full recovery continues to be anticipated.
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