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| The Right Reverend Nedi Rivera | |
|---|---|
| Bishop Diocese of Olympia | |
| Province | Episcopal Church in the United States |
| Diocese | Seattle, Washington |
| Enthroned | 2004 |
| Reign ended | Incumbent |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | June 1974 |
| Consecration | January 22, 2005 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 24, 1946 Visalia, California |
| Spouse | Rev. Robert (Bob) Moore |
| Alma mater | Wheaton College Church Divinity School of the Pacific |
Nedi Rivera (born March 24, 1946), is a suffragan bishop and Episcopal priest. She is the first Hispanic woman bishop and the 12th woman bishop in the Episcopal Church. Her father, Bishop Victor Manuel Rivera, was a prominent opponent of the ordination of women.[1]
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Early years [link]
Rivera is one of three daughters born to a Puerto Rican father, the late Rt. Rev. Victor Manuel Rivera, third Bishop (1968 to 1988) of San Joaquin, California and to an Anglo mother the late Barbara Ross Lamb.[2] Rivera grew up in Visalia, California and went to an Episcopal convent boarding school in Tucson, Arizona. A nun at the convent advised her to attend Wheaton College in Massachusetts, believing that Rivera would like it there. At Wheaton she majored in Physics and also took calculus. In 1968, she earned a BA in physics and married six weeks after her graduation. Instead of perusing a career in physics, she dedicated herself to her two daughters and two sons and volunteer work that included convening a youth group for church in her home and bookkeeping.[3]
Ordination [link]
Rivera's father was the Rt. Rev. Victor Manuel Rivera, the third Bishop of San Joaquin, California.[2] In 1972, she learned at a meeting, that the church was planning on ordaining women as priests someday. Being raised within the religious beliefs of the Episcopal Church, served as an influential factor when she decided that she wanted to become a priest. However, one of the obstacles that she would have to face was convincing her very own father who opposed women being ordained priests.[3] Rivera attended the seminary and was ordained a church deacon on June 1975. In 1976, she earned her Master of Divinity degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) in Berkeley, California and on June of that same year, she was ordained to the priesthood, her father, however did not attend her ordination as a priest. Rivera served at various churches in the dioceses of California and El Camino Real.[3]
First Hispanic female Bishop [link]
From 1994-2004, she served as rector of St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Rivera, who earned a D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, was elected bishop suffragan in 2004 and assigned to serve in the Diocese of Olympia. It is a custom of the church that when a new bishop is ordinated, the other bishops gather around the new bishop and each of them lays a hand on his/her head while saying a prayer. At the end of the prayer, the bishops move their hands away from the new bishop head. Her father, who had a change of heart, was among the bishops present and proudly patted her with affection rather than liturgy.[3] Rivera, thus became the first Hispanic woman bishop and the 12th woman bishop in the Episcopal Church. She had to work hard to become conversant in Spanish (English was spoken at home) and now celebrates and preaches in Spanish.[2]
At the Diocese of Olympia, which is located in Seattle, Washington, she oversaw particular ministries, including evangelism, faith formation and ethnic ministries. As a member of the diocesan's "We Will Stand With You team," she provides the leadership and support for ongoing fund-raising to rebuild St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and School in New Orleans that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She helped to start an initiative to get the diocese to buy 30,000 malaria nets to be distributed in African countries.[3]
Assignments [link]
Rivera, who since June 29, 1968 had been married to the Rev. Robert (Bob) Moore, was consecrated on January 22, 2005. She was elected by unanimous vote during a special convention to "Provisional Bishop" by the Diocese of Eastern Oregon, to serve through Spring 2012. Rivera continued to serve as suffragan bishop in the Seattle-based Diocese of Olympia while working one-third of her time in Eastern Oregon, for which the diocese will reimburse the diocese in Seattle.[4] Rivera serves on the College for Bishops Advisory Committee and Curriculum Board, Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop, and on the House of Bishops’ Planning Committee on the national church level.[3]
See also [link]
References [link]
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Rivera
Rivera is the capital of Rivera Department of Uruguay. The border with Brazil joins it with the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, which is only a street away from it. Together, they form an urban area of around 200,000 inhabitants. As of the census of 2011, it is the sixth most populated city of Uruguay.
Location
The city is located on the border with Brazil at the north end of Route 5.
History
On 21 March 1860 a pueblo (village) named Pereira was created by the Act of Ley Nº 614.
On 7 May 1862, it was substituted by the villa (town) named Ceballos and founded by the Act of Ley Nº 704, in honour of the Spanish viceroy Pedro de Cevallos. In July 1867 it took on the official name Rivera and was recognized as a villa. The Brazilian town Santana do Livramento already existed just across the border. On 1 October 1884, it became capital of the Department of Rivera by the Act of Ley Nº 1.757. Its status was elevated to ciudad (city) on 10 June 1912 by the Act of Ley Nº 4.006.
In 1943, the Plaza Internacional Rivera-Livramento (see photo) was built to celebrate the Fifth Conference of the Commission Mixta for Mixed Limits and as a hope for the future integration of the two towns, claimed to be the only international square in the world. From 1851 to this day, inhabitants of both communities are free to move in both sides. Customs and checkpoints are located outside the cities. Today, duty-free shops are one of the main economic resources of Rivera.
Rivera, Switzerland
Rivera is a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The municipalities of Medeglia, Bironico, Camignolo, Rivera and Sigirino merged on 21 November 2010 into the new municipality of Monteceneri.
History
Rivera is first mentioned in 1296 as Sorenzino. In 1348 it was mentioned as Rivera.
Archeological objects and graves from the Iron Age and the Roman era have been found in Rivera. In the Middle Ages, Rivera was part of the valley community of Carvina. In the 13th Century Como Cathedral possessed estates in Sorencino. Starting in 1678, representatives from the twelve members of the Swiss Confederation in Ticino met in Casa dei landfogti before they assembled in Lugano.
Rivera was a member of the parish of Bironico, before it became an independent parish in 1754. From 1779 until 1793, the parish church of S. Spirito was rebuilt.
The villagers earned their living from agriculture, mostly in alpine meadows and pastures. During construction of the Ceneri tunnel in 1872-82, the population increased sharply. The completion of the road in 1811 and the construction of the tunnel and the station led to the emergence of a new district in the flatter part of the valley. This area forms the northern boundary of the agglomeration of Lugano. The base station of the Monte Tamaro gondola opened in 1972 in Rivera.
Rivera (disambiguation)
Rivera is a surname of Spanish and Italian origin which was the old spelling of ribera, the Spanish word of “riverbank”. The name Rivera is a Northern Italian variation of the Southern (Sicily) Ribera name. Other forms of spellings:Riva, Rivero, Riviere, Riba, just to name a few. Rivera is also a French surname
