Diocesan News

Bliss Austin Spooner, who served as director of development for four years, departed from the diocesan staff on June 14, having accepted a position with Hearth, Inc., a Boston nonprofit organization dedicated to ending elderly and older adult homelessness through the creation and management of affordable supportive housing.

Margaret Lias has been hired as assistant for congregations and grants administration, a new full-time position on the diocesan staff, and will begin on May 31.

The Office of the Bishop has issued the following notice. Updated May 6, 2022:  The funeral for the Rev. Helen Moore, originally planned for Jan. 8, 2022, will now take place at Trinity Church, Boston on Saturday, May 21 at 10 a.m.  Clergy are invited to vest (white stoles).  Masks are required; early arrival is advised. 

The Rev. Dr. Yolanda A. Rolle has been named to serve as missioner for youth and young adults and will begin her new position on the diocesan staff on Aug. 1.

Starting at sunset--7:41 p.m.--on Thursday, April 28, the diocesan Young Adult Advisory Committee and the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard are teaming up to co-host a spring revival in the chaplaincy’s backyard at 2 Garden Street in Cambridge, with music by the Appalachian string band, The Onlies, smoked meats and homemade pies, and the chance to meet new people. 

“We’re looking to create spaces where young Episcopalians can find one another and build relationships and lessen both the isolation of the pandemic and also the isolation, sometimes, of being one of only a few people in our age group in many of our parishes,” the Rev. Isaac Martinez, a member of the Young Adult Advisory Committee, said in a Zoom interview.