Diocesan News

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE and the B-PEACE Campaign of the Jorge Fuentes Antiviolence Task Force invite the diocesan community’s participation in and support of the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace on Sunday, May 11.  The walk is a fundraiser for the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute.Following the…

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE sent the following update to clergy and parish and diocesan leadership today:My Sisters and Brothers,I want to share with you the results of yesterday’s consult with my medical team at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  As you know, in December I had surgery to remove a…

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE convened clergy and business leaders for a March 6 breakfast where they heard about how they can help reduce street violence and enrich their own communities and workplaces by hiring teens in need of summer jobs."There is a huge gap right now between the number of teens…

While visiting the diocesan offices on Mar. 14, 2014,  the seven candidates for bishop took the opportunity to sit down with the communications office and introduce themselves on video. To learn more about the candidates, please visit www.mabishopsearch.org 

A special convention to elect the next bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts will take place on Saturday, April 5.Clergy and lay delegates from the parishes and missions of the diocese will gather at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (138 Tremont Street) in Boston to elect a diocesan…

The Church Home Society has announced that it will create an endowment fund for summer camp scholarships in honor of Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE.The society's board of trustees voted in December to create within its endowment a $1-million fund, to be called the Bishop M. Thomas Shaw Campership Fund…

Episcopal City Mission’s Lobby Day on April 9 will both celebrate Bishop Tom Shaw’s leadership in social activism and carry it forward. Episcopalians are invited to gather with Shaw at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston for a celebration in his honor, and then walk together to the State…

A series of open public forums March 14-18 is underway, providing the opportunity to meet and learn about the candidates on the slate for election as bishop. The forums take place on:Friday, March 14, 6:30 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Church (79 Denton Road) in Wellesley;Saturday, March 15, 1 p.m.,…

Thirteen hardy teens made the trip up to the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in Greenfield, N.H., this February school vacation week for the very first Winter Camp. Alessia Doss, Camp Director, and Sam Gould, Director of Youth Ministry, collaborated to program this week of winter fun…

The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts announced today two additional candidates for election as bishop, having verified proper petitions and satisfactory background checks for both.  They are:• The Rev. Timothy E. Crellin, Vicar, St. Stephen’s Church, Boston; and•…