Diocesan News

The Diocesan Council awards the Mission Council Grant of $25,000 to St. Paul's Church Newburyport, for their work with Foundation Cristosal in El Salvador. 

The Rev. Sam Rodman announces the two new mission hubs in the diocese: Plymouth, Cape and the Islands,  and the Merrimack Valley. Representatives from each hub give their thanks. 

Leaders of the B-PEACE for Jorge Campaign give the 2013 convention an update on their work this year, and share their plans for the future. 

Bishop Gayle E. Harris, Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Massachusetts, gives a sermon at the 2013 Diocesan Convention on Nov. 2 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. 

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, gives his second meditation of the day at the 2013 Diocesan Convention, Nov. 2 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. 

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, gives his first meditation of the day at the 2013 Diocesan Convention at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. 

With the World Series victory parade rolling past the Cathedral Church of St. Paul the morning of the convention, Red Sox gear was everywhere on display: The Very Rev. Jep Streit, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, sports a very sporting earring. Tracy J. Sukraw …

Updated Nov. 4, 2013:  Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE announced to the Diocesan Convention on Nov. 2 his plans to retire at the time of his successor’s consecration on Sept. 13, 2014.  Shaw in January 2013 called for the election of a bishop coadjutor to serve alongside him for a period of…

With the Red Sox World Series victory parade through downtown Boston rolling past the Cathedral Church of St. Paul while Diocesan Convention is underway on Saturday, Nov. 2, the convention schedule and arrangements have had to be adjusted as follows…

Oct. 22, 2013:  Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE and Bishop Gayle E. Harris of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts today issued the following statement on the recent government shutdown: Like many of you, we give thanks to God that our congressional…