Diocesan News

The Rev. Francis Fornaro has been named interim president and dean of Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, according to a March 23 announcement posted on the EDS Web site. “I am honored to be called to serve an institution that has done so much to form and prepare me for a career in…

When bishops of the Episcopal Church met March 13-17 at Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, N.C., for their annual spring House of Bishops retreat, they took up an array of weighty topics that included, in addition to preparation for this summer's General Convention, an agreement to write a…

Bishop Alan M. Gates and Bishop Gayle E. Harris and the Diocese of Massachusetts' B-PEACE antiviolence campaign invite supporters to join them for the annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace on Sunday, May 10 in Dorchester. The walk is a fundraiser for the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, which…

Bishop Gayle Harris shares some of her personal experiences with faith-based community organizing. 

Bishop Alan Gates shares some of his personal experiences with faith-based community organizing. 

Keynote given by Dr. Mark Warren, professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, at the 2015 Spring Learning Day. Dr. Mark Warren is a sociologist concerned with the revitalization of American democratic and community life. An associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and…

Keynote address at the 2015 Spring Learning Event by Alexie Torres-Fleming, an activist, community organizer, advocate and urban planner from the South Bronx, New York. She is the Executive Director of Access Strategies Fund, a Cambridge-based organization that funds social justice work that…

The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is welcoming Cindy Cushman to the staff as the new human resources and benefits manager. Cushman will be managing daily operations in HR for both the diocesan and Cathedral Church of St. Paul staffs, including staffing, salary and benefits administration, and…

About 150 people gathered at Christ Church in Needham on March 7 for the annual diocesan Spring Learning Event, this year on "Mobilizing the Church: From Dreaming to Doing." Episcopal City Mission and the Diocese of Massachusetts offered the program together. Tracy J. Sukraw …

The pilgrims at St. George's Guest House, Jerusalem. St. George's Guest House is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. (Nov. 2014) Peter Jeffrey Pilgrims renewing their baptismal vows at the Jordan River. (Nov. 2014). Peter Jeffrey …