February 19, 2001
Source: Los Angeles Times
On February 19, 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that in January the Los Angeles diocese became the first in the Episcopal church to appoint a Latino provost in the United States. The provost is "the person responsible for overseeing the day-to-day administration of a diocese's cathedral center...The Los Angeles diocese has the church's highest concentration of Latinos. They make up 10,000 of the 85,000 Episcopalians in the diocese," but only 20 of the 510 priests are Latinos. The new provost, Ernesto Medina, is one of only 275 active Latino ministers in the Episcopal church. Medina says the traditionally white Episcopal church still "hasn't opened its eyes" to its increasing diversity.