(RNS) — The Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop, Michael Curry, is scheduled to have a pacemaker implanted Friday (March 1) to deal with his atrial fibrillation, or irregular heartbeat, the denomination announced Thursday.
The process is predicted to require an in a single day hospital keep. Curry, who has been holding to a lighter, modified work schedule whereas coping with latest well being points, will proceed doing so till his medical group releases him for extra duties, the announcement mentioned.
The Episcopal Church Workplace of Public Affairs requested for continued prayers for Curry, his household and his medical group.
Curry, 70, is within the final 12 months of his nine-year time period because the 27th presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church.
Earlier this month, he authorized Vice President of the Home of Bishops Mary Grey-Reeves to hold out choose duties on his behalf as he recovers from a Jan. 18 process to deal with recurring subdural hematomas, or mind bleeds.
Since Might 2023, Curry has been receiving medical remedy for inner bleeding and coronary heart situations. He was hospitalized for inner bleeding in Might and August, and in September, surgeons carried out a significant surgical procedure to take away his proper adrenal gland and a noncancerous connected mass, which had been recognized because the supply of the bleeding. He was hospitalized from Sept. 20 till Oct. 5 for monitoring.
He had further surgical procedures on Dec. four to handle subdural hematomas ensuing from a fall in Syracuse, New York, and on Jan. 6. The Jan. 18 process was supposed to proactively prevent blood from pooling within the mind.
“I proceed to be so grateful for all of your prayers, which have been working in tandem with my medical group’s wonderful care. I depend it a blessing to be in an space with good analysis hospitals and in a loving church with such devoted, prayerful assist,” Curry mentioned in an announcement earlier than that surgical procedure.
In 2015, one month into his tenure, Curry was additionally hospitalized on account of a mind bleed brought on by a fall on his first day in workplace.
Final week, Curry announced updates to the denomination’s clergy misconduct protocol that might make it easier to report misconduct, and to trace the progress of inner misconduct complaints in opposition to bishops.
Curry is at the moment himself the topic of an internal clergy misconduct complaint for his response to allegations of emotional abuse made in opposition to Bishop Prince Singh, the previous bishop of the Dioceses of Japanese and Western Michigan, who resigned from his submit Sept. 8.
In keeping with the up to date webpage on the denomination’s web site, the preliminary report on the grievance involving Curry was forwarded Sunday to a reference panel, which can meet to find out subsequent steps.
