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At meet-and-greet gatherings May 7-11, our diocesan community will welcome the five nominees for election as the 17th bishop diocesan of the Diocese of Massachusetts. Videos provided by the nominees are now available for viewing on their individual nominee pages at www.diomass.org/bishop-search/bishop-nominees. The videos are also available in a YouTube playlist here.

In the News
Agroecologist Peter Jensen, a former Peace Corps permagarden training specialist, worked in Haiti and East Africa for over two decades, “building landscapes back better than they ever were.” Since leaving Ethiopia in 2019 and moving back to Orleans, where he grew up, he has been applying that…
Diocesan News
Final slate: Brendan J. Barnicle; Edwin D. Johnson; Jean Baptiste Ntagengwa; Gideon L.K. Pollach; Julia E. Whitworth The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is pleased to announce that, having added one additional nominee from the petition process, it…
Diocesan News

The Office of the Bishop has issued the following pastoral announcement:

Diocesan News

The following statement of apology was sent to diocesan clergy, Standing Committee and Diocesan Council, and posted on the diocesan website on April 12, 2024.

Diocesan News

The Office of the Bishop has issued the following pastoral announcement:

Diocesan News

The Diocese of Massachusetts and friends and colleagues across The Episcopal Church are remembering and celebrating the life and witness of the Rev. Canon Edward W. Rodman, who died peacefully, according to his family, on April 2, 2024, at home in Framingham, Mass. He was 81. Ed Rodman was known churchwide as a strategist, advocate and activist for social and racial justice, and as an educator and mentor across generations in The Episcopal Church.

Reflections

A message for Easter 2024 from Bishop Alan M. Gates

Diocesan News
World religious leaders, including Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry, have released a Holy Week letter on war in the Holy Land.  Bishops of the Diocese of Massachusetts, Alan M. Gates and Carol J.W.T. Gallagher, together with the bishop of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts,…
Reflections

Following is the text of the sermon delivered by Bishop Alan M. Gates at the annual Holy Tuesday Service for Renewal of Ordination Vows and Blessing of Chrism, on March 26, 2024, at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston.