Episcopal Church News

A 54-year-old clergyman has been elected as the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon.

Even as their enrollments are growing, seminaries in Central Texas are seeing their endowments battered by the sagging economy, forcing layoffs and restructuring.

The Seminary of the Southwest, the state's only Episcopal seminary, laid off 12 of its 37 administrative employees this week, a move that came after a special meeting of school administrators to discuss the declining value of its endowment and the seminary's bleak financial outlook over the next couple of years ...

GALION -- The only Episcopal church in Galion closed last month, after being a place of worship for more than 130 years ...

Reviewing litigation involving dioceses and parishes leaving the Episcopal Church is not a joyous task, but a review of recent rulings suggests that current legal strategies are neither the best course nor necessary ...

The Chicago Consultation today asked the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Most Rev.

Roman Catholics should look beyond the divisive issue of ordaining women to see how much they share with the world's Anglicans and work toward greater Christian unity, the head of the Anglican Communion said on Thursday.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, whose own church is split over female priests and bishops, said the Vatican's ban on ordaining women was not as solidly grounded theologically as the core Christian doctrines the two denominations agree on ...

Pope Benedict XVI is to meet his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Saturday, just two weeks after a Vatican overture to disgruntled Anglicans to convert to Catholicism.

The British press has painted Williams' visit, though scheduled long before the controversy, as a "showdown" between the two churches amid accusations that the Vatican presented the Church of England with a fait accompli ...

St. Catharines, Ont. - Archbishop Robert Duncan rejects the term "breakaway" to describe the faction of orthodox Anglicans he now leads.

The former editorial page editor of the Washington Times has filed a discrimination complaint against the paper, saying he was "coerced" into attending a Unification Church religious ceremony that culminated in a mass wedding conducted by the church's leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon ..

By JIM JONES FORT WORTH - When word got out that Susan Slaughter would make history on Sunday by becoming the first female priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, church members began asking, 'What will we call you?' Episcopalians often address male priests as 'Father.' They sometimes call female priests 'Mother,' followed by their first ...

The work given to the Episcopal Church by the July meeting of General Convention in Anaheim, California, has begun.

Nearly 270 volunteer members of 24 of the Episcopal Church's so-called interim bodies, the Committees, Commissions, Agencies and Boards (commonly know as CCABs) are having their first meetings here Nov. 17-20. The meeting included an orientation session the morning of Nov. 18 ...

So what do we make of the recent invitation from the Vatican to disenfranchised Anglicans? Most are still trying to "get a read" on what this is all about. It seems there are more questions than answers as a result of this this recent announcement ...

Detroit -- St. John's Episcopal Church marks a milestone today: The Woodward landmark is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a 6:30 p.m. service.

Now that the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth and the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (Southern Cone) are separate entities, they are both reporting unanimous decisions by their respective legislative bodies. The decisions move the dioceses away from one another and toward their respective theological commitments ...

Maybe it was the brick walls and modest marble columns, or the wood floor crafted from thousands of slats not much bigger than Popsicle sticks.

Most media coverage of the D.C. Council's steps toward civil marriage equality for same-sex couples has followed a worn-out script that gives the role of speaking for God to clergy who are opposed to equality.

This book looks like a guide for re-enactors, one that doubles as a prop: The Confederate Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions Including Balm for the Weary and Wounded .

Most media coverage of the D.C. Council's steps toward civil marriage equality for same-sex couples has followed a worn-out script that gives the role of speaking for God to clergy who are opposed to equality. As the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, I would say respectfully to my fellow Christians that people who deny others the blessings they claim for themselves should not assume they speak for the Almighty ...

Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Hundreds of worshippers packed into Sacramento’s Trinity Cathedral on Sunday morning to hear the nation’s leader of the Episcopal Church talk about the need to embrace change.

“Changing isn’t the problem,” said Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in her message. “Our fear and anxiety about it is” ...