Diocesan News

The bishops' call for congregations to collect or designate offerings toward a diocesan Merrimack Valley disaster relief response has been met with a generous outpouring of $26,018 to date. Courtesy photo …

Last year's Diocesan Convention adopted a mission strategy implementation plan that includes "developing opportunities for teams from congregations to visit other congregations, sharing worship and learning about one another." Since then, a Diocesan…

One of the resolutions coming before the Diocesan Convention on Nov. 3 is about a topic that Massachusetts voters will also be considering on Election Day:  gender identity antidiscrimination. The proposed Diocesan Convention resolution advocating gender identity antidiscrimination asks the…

Members of 40 congregations, representing 11 of the diocese's 12 geographic deaneries, gathered at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston on Sept. 22 for the first-ever diocesan Ministry Network Showcase, organized as a day of "short talks with big messages and lots of resource sharing."…

This year's annual Diocesan Convention promises celebration in addition to the usual legislative business as it gets set to consider the admission of two new mission congregations and also marks the 30th anniversary of the historic election of the first woman to become a bishop in the Anglican…

Courtesy Photo Diocesan Youth Council members at the kick-off retreat at the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in September 2018. People of the Diocese of Massachusetts are used to seeing young people at the microphone…

[Episcopal City Mission News Release]:  On Sept. 15, Episcopal City Mission (ECM) hosted a day-long training on “Faith-Rooted Organizing.” About 60 people attended, coming from many different Episcopal churches, the Life Together fellowship program and grassroots organizations. ECM’s Faith…

The Office of the Bishop has issued the following notice: Oct. 9, 2018 Dear Clergy, We are saddened to inform you of the death of the Rev. F. Washington (Tony) Jarvis III in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on Oct. 7, 2018. From 1976 until his death Tony served as priest associate at the Parish of All…

Diane Pound, who has served as executive assistant to Bishop Alan M. Gates for the past four years, has announced that she will be moving to California at the end of the year to be closer to her daughter and soon-to-be son-in-law in the Los Angeles area.  She joined the diocesan staff in…