No, the Episcopal presiding bishop is to be found nowhere within "The Episcopal Communion." Instead, she has chosen to trot over to Merry 'ole England to spend Holy Week as The Episcopal Church's top bishop at the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England.

This is Jefferts Schori's final Holy Week and Easter as the Episcopal presiding bishop and primate. A new presiding bishop is to be elected this summer by General Convention when it meets in Salt Lake City and be enthroned by year's end. As presiding bishop, Jeffers Schori should be gracing one of her own Episcopal congregations with her presence. She has more than 7,000 Episcopal parishes and missions (as well as a few cathedrals) to chose from worldwide, yet she has chosen to celebrate the holiest of Christian holy days away from her own people in the pews.

For Salisbury Cathedral, Jefferts Schori is a plum ... a ripe juicy plum. She is a primate in The Anglican Communion and the first women primate in all of Anglicanism. She has blazed a trail that new Church of England female bishops can follow. She has also shattered the stained glass ceiling that other denominations have used to advance their own females clerics to the top post. Jefferts Schori is the top poster bishop.

In rapid succession, following last year's General Synod vote to allow women in the Church of England's (CofE) House of Bishops, three females were named to grab the crozier and wear the mitre. In January, Libby Lane became the Church of England's first female to be consecrated as bishop when she became the Bishop of Stockport; then Alison White was named Bishop of Hull. Her husband Frank White is the current Bishop of Newcastle; most recently, Rachel Treweek was named as Bishop of Gloucester and is to be the first female Lord Spiritual in the English Parliament. She was fast-tracked into the House of Lords after Parliament suspended rules governing appointments of bishops to the House of Lords to allow for a woman bishop to be immediately seated.

In Lutheranism, Elizabeth Eaton is now the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; in Canada, Susan Johnson has the top post in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (Église evangelique lutherienne au Canada); Antje Jackelen is the Archbishop of Uppsala Primate of the Church of Sweden (Svenska kyrkan); and Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir is the Bishop of Iceland in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (Hin evangeliska lúterska kirkja). Also, Annette Kurschus was elected the Präses (president) of The Evangelical Church of Westphalia in Germany (Evangelische Kirche von Westfalen) while Linda Booth was elevated to the President of the Council of Twelve in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. These female presiding bishops and denominational presidents all have been swept into their respective episcopal positions on Jefferts Schori's sweeping cope.

The American presiding bishop was invited by Salisbury Cathedral Dean June Osborne to spend Holy Week at her cathedral. The first woman dean of Salisbury Cathedral is facing a very busy Holy Week with more than 30 liturgical services planned from Palm Sunday through Easter day. The Episcopal presiding bishop is slated to participate in six of those services including: preaching at the Service of Reconciliation on Fig Monday and at Tenebrae on Great Tuesday. She is also to provide a reflective Holy Week meditation on Spy Wednesday. This is a paid event costing from £10 to £18-UK ($15 to $27-US or €13 to € 25-EU) to get in.

The presiding bishop is then expected to preach at the Maundy Thursday celebration of the Last Supper. On Good Friday, she is slated to lead the noon service and preach again at the cathedral's Good Friday liturgy later that day. No cathedral services have been scheduled for Holy Saturday. On Sunday, The Episcopal Church's top bishop is to preach at the main Easter liturgy.

"I am looking forward to joining the Holy Week and Triduum liturgies of a cathedral that is both deeply historic and innovative, to meet new and old friends, and to reflect on the partnerships with Sudan and other parts of the Anglican Communion that continue to teach us all about the Paschal mystery," Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori was quoted by the Episcopal News Service about her Holy Week trip to Salisbury Cathedral.

This is not Katharine Jefferts Schori's first time preaching in an English cathedral. In 2010, she caused quite a stir when she visited Southwark Cathedral. At the time, before the inclusion of women bishops in the Church of England House of Bishops or in the British House of Lords, visiting female bishops were forbidden by a 1967 English civil law, which did not permit women to function as bishops in England since women bishops were not allowed in the Church of England. Since at the time, the CofE only ordained and recognized the diaconal and priestly ministerial orders, Jefferts Schori's episcopal ordination was ignored, much to her chagrin.

When the presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church came to town, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams informed her that she could not wear her episcopal regalia, including her mitre, while behind the altar, and in the pulpit at Southwark.

The presiding bishop threw a snit. "It is bizarre; it is beyond bizarre," she said adding that the Parliamentary rules, which govern the ministry of visiting clergy to England, were "nonsense."

As a result, she clutched her folded mitre under her arm as she processed up the aisle in the Southwark Cathedral. The whole incident came to be known as "Mitregate" and made international headlines.

The last time the Presiding bishop was at Salisbury Cathedral was in 2008 when the cathedral celebrated the 750th anniversary of its 1258 consecration as a cathedral. She and the bishops of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan were hosted by the cathedral at a three-day conference on strengthening global partnerships with the Episcopal Church of the Sudan. The pre-Lambeth Conference event celebrated a 35-year partnership between the Diocese of Salisbury and the Episcopal Church of the Sudan. The American presiding bishop preached at a July 13 morning worship service and again sthat afternoon at Evensong.

News photos documenting the 2008 Salisbury event show the Presiding bishop wearing her flowing cope and mitre as she processed into Salisbury Cathedral. She was one of only four mitred bishops. The other African bishops wore their chimere and rochet with biretta.

Now that the Church of England is consecrating women bishops and English law has been changed to allow females in that role, this time, perhaps, the presiding bishop will not be stirring up another Mitregate. But it's a shame she did not stay home for Easter to celebrate her last Easter holiday as presiding bishop with her own Episcopal Church spiritual family. Charity begins at home.

Mary Ann Mueller is a journalist living in Texas. She is a regular contributor to VirtueOnline