Diocesan News

Food ministry is one of the church’s oldest and most consistent forms of mission, and it takes many forms: food pantries, soup kitchens, community meals and many others. Today, food ministry in the Diocese of Massachusetts is deepening and expanding the interpretation of the Gospel imperative to…

Claudette Hunt from Diocesan Council presents the 2014 Mission Tithe Council Grant to El Hogar Ministries at Diocesan Convention. 

Bishop Gayle E. Harris, Bishop Suffragan, speaks about the consequences of war and the Christian imperative to wage peace, during a presentation, given with the Rev. Dr. T. James Kodera, anticipating the upcoming 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Bishop Alan M. Gates gives his first address as bishop to the Diocesan Convention on Nov. 8, 2014, at St. Stephen's Memorial Church in Lynn.  The text of the address is available here.

Gerry Sullivan has joined the diocesan staff as chief business officer, filling a position vacant since last November.  Most recently Sullivan served, for eight years, as the chief operating officer for the Sisters of Mercy Northeast, a women's religious community ministering through numerous…

Diocesan Convention adopted two measures on financial investment policy and fossil fuel divestment and another on multifaith education.  It also approved the $8.2-million diocesan budget for 2015 and elected alternate deputies to the Episcopal Church's triennial General Convention in July…

Bishop Gates gives his first address to Diocesan Convention. Ellen Stuart Kittle The convention celebrated the newly merged Bristol Trinity Episcopal Church, which comprises the congregations of St. John’s in Taunton, St. John the Evangelist in…

In 2013, the Diocese of Massachusetts invited 14 small congregations to be part of a study to learn more about what helps churches grow and thrive, and what hampers positive efforts to change. Working with diocesan congregational development staff and the Hartford Institute for Religion Research,…

The bishops of the diocese and the deans of Boston's Episcopal churches released the following statement today regarding the death of Boston's longtime mayor, Thomas M. Menino:On behalf of the Episcopal churches in the City of Boston and the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, we express our sorrow…

The Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE received news of his unusual first-ballot election as bishop on March 12, 1994, while on retreat at Kanuga in North Carolina with the House of Bishops, as its chaplain. He is pictured with (right) the presiding bishop at the time, the Most. Rev. Edmond L. Browning,…