Diocesan News

[Episcopal Relief & Development News Release]:  Episcopal Relief & Development is working with the ecumenical ACT Alliance in Nepal and local partners in northern India and southwest China regarding urgent needs and assessment efforts following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck near…

As the jury convenes this week in the sentencing phase of the trial of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the bishops of the Episcopal Church’s two Massachusetts dioceses today issued the following statement against the death penalty:As bishops of the Episcopal Church in…

After nearly a year, major renovations are still underway at the diocese's Cathedral Church of St. Paul at 138 Tremont Street in Boston, but on Saturday, May 2, everyone is invited to come take a peek inside and make their mark on the newly poured concrete slab that will be the foundation of the…

Bishop Alan M. Gates announced on March 25 the appointment of the Ven. W. Michael Hamilton to serve as archdeacon in the Diocese of Massachusetts. Along with the Ven. Patricia Zifcak, Hamilton will assist the bishops and the canon for ordained vocations, the Rev. Canon Edie Dolnikowski, with the…

On March 24, the Episcopal Church sponsored a Webcast, “The Climate Change Crisis,” featuring a keynote by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and panels of experts on topics related to climate change in the context of faith. Jefferts Schori said that climate change was a moral…

The Great Vigil is the first celebration of Easter, that Holy Saturday night service when the "Alleluia" returns after its Lenten hiatus; the giant Paschal candle, which will burn through Pentecost, is lit from a newly kindled fire; and new Christians are baptized and new members of the church…

The Rev. Francis Fornaro has been named interim president and dean of Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, according to a March 23 announcement posted on the EDS Web site. “I am honored to be called to serve an institution that has done so much to form and prepare me for a career in…

When bishops of the Episcopal Church met March 13-17 at Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, N.C., for their annual spring House of Bishops retreat, they took up an array of weighty topics that included, in addition to preparation for this summer's General Convention, an agreement to write a…

Bishop Alan M. Gates and Bishop Gayle E. Harris and the Diocese of Massachusetts' B-PEACE antiviolence campaign invite supporters to join them for the annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace on Sunday, May 10 in Dorchester. The walk is a fundraiser for the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, which…

Bishop Gayle Harris shares some of her personal experiences with faith-based community organizing.