Episcopal Church News

The sign outside St. Francis Anglican Church reads “think FORGIVE act.” Action and forgiveness were the themes of the day, as the parishioners gathered Sunday for one last time at their church on Main Street before walking several blocks away to begin a new church in rented facilities.

Waterfront condos now overlook the tabby foundations of warehouses on the Darien River that Union troops burned 150 years ago.

A Cape Cod Episcopal priest has been suspended for allegedly plagiarizing more than a dozen sermons verbatim from a book.

The long-time rector of St. John's Episcopal Church has been removed by church leaders amid allegations that he plagiarized his Sunday sermons over a series of years.

The first meeting of the Cana East Synod of the newly forming Convocation of Anglicans of North America, a new denomination that is arising as an alternative to the Episcopal Church in America, was held May 2 to 4 at the Wayne United Methodist Church .

The Rev. Anne Hodges-Copple, named earlier this year as the new bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, will be consecrated June 15 in a service at Duke Chapel that will include the Most Rev.

Lenoir-Rhyne University will confer two honorary degrees to distinguished leaders in the Christian faith at the commencement service for Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary on May 25 at Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Columbia.

Eight Lutheran Episcopal Volunteer Network volunteers and their sites will be honored at the annual wine-tasting fundraiser Sunday at Monticello Seasonal Cuisine, 630 G St.

Kirkwood, MO - Two local Episcopal churches will begin worshiping together as one congregation Sunday, May 19 - the Day of Pentecost.

St. Paul's Anglican Parish in Bakersfield is looking for a new home following a courtroom decision that hands control of its church property back to the Episcopal Church.

When Philip Richardson was named archbishop- elect in March, the piles of cards, letters and emails was "just extraordinary". On one day there was a card from Stratford and one from the United States.

Fr Raymond Browne of Kilgefin parish in Co Roscommon, which takes in Ballyleague, Ballagh and Curraghroe, has been appointed the new Bishop of Kerry by His Holiness, Pope Francis.

Armando X. Ochoa was installed as bishop of the Diocese of Fresno in February 2012.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Kim G. Dunning today reaffirmed her May 1 final orders that property occupied by St.

Malcom Boyd sits inside Grace Cathedral in San Francisco during the filming of a biographical feature film, now in production, on his life.

A spokesman for the German Catholic bishops has said that there are no disputes within the country's hierarchy on proposals for allowing women to be deacons.

The chairman of U.S. Catholic bishops' Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage has denounced legalization of same-sex marriage in Rhode Island as violating "the very design of nature." The Rhode Island Legislature voted for marriage equality last week, making the Ocean State the 10th state to legalize same-sex marriage.

On the eve of the Senate's first markup of the bipartisan immigration reform bill, S.744, a wide array of faith leaders is urging legislators to ensure that comprehensive immigration reform upholds the United States' proud history and tradition of protecting and welcoming refugees, asylum-seekers, and those fleeing persecution.

Saint Paul's Episcopal church has a history going back more than 150 years. Larry Cook has been organist and choir director for the past 16 years he has seen his share of changes.

The Orange County Register reports Tuesday that Superior Court Judge Kim Dunning ruled in favor of the diocese in the nine-year legal battle, possibly ending the dispute.