Diocesan News

CANTERBURY, England (Episcopal News Service) -- One-time oil executive and former bishop of Anglican Communion News Service Archbishop Justin Welby Durham…

Dean Jep Streit honored Friends of the Public Garden president emeritus Henry Lee with a Good Tracy J. Sukraw Henry Lee (right) receives cathedral's Good Samaritan Award from Dean Jep…

As the fundraising effort of the diocese's $20-million Together Now campaign enters its final phase--with $19,088,142 raised as of Feb. 25 and $1,086,150 anticipated from parish collaborative campaigns still in progress--the implementation of the…

Episcopalians from the Diocese of Massachusetts had both “an enlightening spiritual experience” and a taste of political reality during their Jan. 14-25 trip to Israel and Palestine. Bishop Gayle E. Harris said before the trip that it was intended as “both a pilgrimage to enhance and enrich our…

The Rt. Rev. Gayle E. Harris, Bishop Suffragan, invites others to join her, in prayer and in person, for a witness against violence in Washington, D.C., on Holy Monday, March 25. The witness is being organized by the Diocese of Connecticut. Harris's letter of invitation follows below. My…

The Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, will preach at an interfaith prayer service on the eve of the U.S. Supreme Court's hearing of marriage equality cases on California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the…

[March 1, 2013]:  The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts will elect a bishop coadjutor next year to succeed the Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE upon his retirement. In a March 1 letter to clergy, wardens, Diocesan Convention delegates and leadership groups, the Standing Committee has outlined…

Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge and the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts announced on Feb. 15 that Diane D’Souza has been hired as director of the continuing education program at Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) and as director of the Mission Institute.  The Mission Institute is a new…

The newly founded Harvard Interfaith Prison Education project is bringing together an interfaith coalition of Harvard graduate and undergraduate students committed to mentoring incarcerated women and men who are working toward their bachelor degrees through Partakers and Boston University's College…

Six new diocesan staff members are now in place. The Rev. Dr. Edie Dolnikowski has been hired as the new canon for ordained vocations and will begin full time on Feb. 25.  She has been the associate rector at St. Andrew's Church in Wellesley…