Diocesan News

Beverly third grader William Talbot rings the bell at St. Peter's Church in Beverly, assisted by parish treasurer Godfrey Perrott. "We've been given the planet by God to care for, and we haven't done a very good job," the Rev. Manny Faria of St. Peter's Church in Beverly…

“In Christ there is no East or West”: 680 members of the Diocese of Massachusetts gathered Nov. 7-8 in Hyannis for the 223rd annual Diocesan Convention. See more photos. Read the news summary. Read the actions taken at Convention.

350.org: Take action! Parishes in Province I are invited to ring their church bells 350 times on a Sunday in the last week of November to call public attention to the problem of climate warming. Why 350? Three hundred fifty parts per million (ppm) is the amount of carbon…

  The Episcopal Church has set Saturday, Oct. 4 as a day of repentance for the sin of slavery.  A 10:30 a.m. “Service of Repentance” on that day, led by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, will be the culmination of a two-day solemn…

Bishop Gayle Harris marches with other Anglican Communion bishops in the Walk of Witness for the Millenium Development Goals Bishops Tom Shaw, Gayle Harris and Bud Cederholm attended the Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican bishops, July 16-Aug…