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)