Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Diverse Group of Clergy Will Lead Invocations and Benedictions At Republican Convention

The Republican National Convention got under way this afternoon.  Among other issues posed by the storm-related rescheduling was the rescheduling of clergy to deliver the opening invocation and closing benediction each of the 3 days. Here, as also reported by JTA, is the line-up of clergy:
  • Tuesday invocation-- Rabbi Meir Soloveichik (Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University)
  • Tuesday benediction-- Sammy Rodriguez (President of The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference)
  • Wednesday invocation-- Ishwar Singh (head of the Sikh Society of Central Florida)
  • Wednesday benediction-- Archbishop Demetrios (Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America)
  • Thursday invocation-- Ken and Priscilla Hutchins (President of the Boston Mormon temple and his wife)
  • Thursday benediction-- Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan (President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops)