Diocesan News

Bishop Gayle E. Harris, Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Massachusetts, gives a sermon at the 2013 Diocesan Convention on Nov. 2 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. 

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, gives his second meditation of the day at the 2013 Diocesan Convention, Nov. 2 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. 

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, gives his first meditation of the day at the 2013 Diocesan Convention at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. 

With the World Series victory parade rolling past the Cathedral Church of St. Paul the morning of the convention, Red Sox gear was everywhere on display: The Very Rev. Jep Streit, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, sports a very sporting earring. Tracy J. Sukraw …

Updated Nov. 4, 2013:  Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE announced to the Diocesan Convention on Nov. 2 his plans to retire at the time of his successor’s consecration on Sept. 13, 2014.  Shaw in January 2013 called for the election of a bishop coadjutor to serve alongside him for a period of…

With the Red Sox World Series victory parade through downtown Boston rolling past the Cathedral Church of St. Paul while Diocesan Convention is underway on Saturday, Nov. 2, the convention schedule and arrangements have had to be adjusted as follows…

Oct. 22, 2013:  Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE and Bishop Gayle E. Harris of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts today issued the following statement on the recent government shutdown: Like many of you, we give thanks to God that our congressional…

The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts’ B-PEACE Resource Day on Sept. 28, 2013, drew more than 300 eastern Massachusetts Episcopalians for workshops and inspiration to work against violence and be peacemakers in our churches, schools, families and communities.  In this video, our bishops and…

A group of Episcopalians is urging the Diocese of Massachusetts to vote with its dollars on the issue of climate change, sparking many conversations about the intersection of church investments and fossil fuels. It's part of a wider debate going on in universities, municipalities and faith…

In one week in October, three new rectors were installed in the parishes where they have been serving three-year appointments as priests-in-charge:  the Rev. Karen Coleman at St. James's Church in Somerville on Oct. 3; the Rev. Leslie Sterling at St. Bartholomew's Church in Cambridge on Oct. 6…