Diocesan News

350.org: Take action! Parishes in Province I are invited to ring their church bells 350 times on a Sunday in the last week of November to call public attention to the problem of climate warming. Why 350? Three hundred fifty parts per million (ppm) is the amount of carbon…

  The Episcopal Church has set Saturday, Oct. 4 as a day of repentance for the sin of slavery.  A 10:30 a.m. “Service of Repentance” on that day, led by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, will be the culmination of a two-day solemn…

Bishop Gayle Harris marches with other Anglican Communion bishops in the Walk of Witness for the Millenium Development Goals Bishops Tom Shaw, Gayle Harris and Bud Cederholm attended the Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican bishops, July 16-Aug…

 Aug. 1, Bishop Cederholm writes from Lambeth: “In 24 hours I shall be on a plane heading home.  These are my reflections at the moment, but I know I will have many more in the days and weeks to come as my heart, mind, and spirit, with the help of the Holy Spirit, deepen this experience for me,…

Following the conference’s opening Eucharist at Canterbury Cathedral on July 20, about 33 bishops, including New Hampshire’s Gene Robinson (right) and Massachusetts bishop suffragan Gayle Harris (left), shared the Eucharist in a nearby field within view of the cathedral towers during a service that…

Bishop Shaw visiting Barnham CEVC Primary School in Suffolk, England Before arriving at Canterbury for the Lambeth Conference, Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE spent three days in the Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, part of a pre-Lambeth hospitality initiative. While there,…

The three bishops of the Diocese of Massachusetts are among the 650 Anglican Communion bishops participating in the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference, now underway in Canterbury, England.  The conference runs from July 16-Aug. 3. This Lambeth Conference is the second for M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE,…