Bishop Frank T. Griswold III, who as the chief primate and pastor of the Episcopal Church in America defied a threatened schism in 2003 by presiding in a bulletproof vest at the ordination of the denomination's first openly gay bishop, died on March 5 in Philadelphia.He was 85.His death, in a hospital, was caused by respiratory failure, his daughter Eliza Griswold said.
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