Diocesan News

I love children's Christmas pageants.  I love the chaos, the crowns, the halos and the angel wings.  I love watching the littlest kids, the ones who are almost always the sheep or the shepherds of the multitude of heavenly hosts.Maybe I've seen a hundred Christmas pageants in my ministry,…

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE has announced that the diocese will not elect a second bishop suffragan when Bishop Bud Cederholm retires in November 2011. “We will instead reallocate resources in order to hire in 2011 an archdeacon to oversee congregational development, strategic ministries that are…

I recently attended a worship service where the preacher took as his text I Thessalonians 5:18, in which St. Paul is ending his letter to the Christians in the strategically located city of Thessalonica.  Paul is encouraging them to maintain…

Bishop Suffragan Bud Cederholm has announced his retirement, effective in early November of next year, when he will be marking 40 years of full-time ordained ministry, 10 of them as a bishop.The full text of Bishop Cederholm’s announcement follows. Nov. 17, 2010Dear Friends,Greetings and peace…

Bishop Bud Cederholm led a delegation to Biloxi, Miss., and New Orleans Dec. 10-13, to visit mission partners there and bring to an official close the diocese's post-Hurricane Katrina work.   Update 12/12/10:  The Gulf Coast team spent…

When Episcopalians converged on St. Stephen’s Memorial Church in Lynn on Nov. 6, they got a warm welcome and a glimpse of city ministry as they took up the business of Diocesan Convention that brought them there. About 650 delegates and members of the clergy attended the annual convention.With the…