1989 Event Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian) 1975 Event James A. Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine) 1954 Event Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity) 1787 Event 1st Anglican bishops of New York and Pennsylvania consecrated in London 1735 Event 1st U.S. Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany 1092 Event Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
