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Anna Page
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Anna Page is in her second year of postulancy for ordination in the Diocese of Massachusetts and her second year of seminary at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C. Unlike most of her peers, however, Page is also a commissioned officer in the United States Army, serving in the Reserves while going…
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The diocesan community's prayers and presence are invited for these upcoming services of ordination to the priesthood: • The Rev. Gregory Johnston on Saturday, Jan. 5, 10:30 a.m., at St. Anne's-in-the-Fields Church (147 Concord Road) in Lincoln; • The Rev. Jennifer Vath on Saturday, Jan. 12, 10 a…
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Dec. 1, 2018 The following statement from Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry is in tribute to President George Herbert Walker Bush. With a grateful nation, and many around the world, we of the Episcopal Church give thanks to God, the source of life and love, for the life, the…
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Cuba
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Lucy Bixby Drawings by the children at St. Paul's, Nantucket on the wall of a sanctuary in Cuba. In a small town in Cuba, letters and pictures drawn by children at St. Paul’s Church in Nantucket hang on a wall. They are the…
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Celebrations were the bookends to this year's annual Diocesan Convention, as it opened with a banquet marking the 30th anniversary of Bishop Barbara C. Harris's historic election as the first woman in the episcopate, and then closed with singing and dancing in response to the official admission of two new mission congregations--Grace Chapel in Brockton and the Ugandan congregation of St. Peter's Church in Waltham.

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On Nov. 2, 2018, the eve of its annual Diocesan Convention in Hyannis, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts honored Bishop Barbara C. Harris and the 30th anniversary of her historic election in 1988 as the first woman to become a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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DYC Presentation to Diocesan Convention 2018
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The Diocesan Youth Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts celebrated the 20th anniversary of youth members being granted voice and vote at Diocesan Convention with a presentation at the Nov. 3, 2018, convention that featured past and present members and offered a challenge to the church…
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Photos from the 2018 Diocesan Convention and celebration honoring Bishop Barbara C. Harris's 30th election anniversary, Nov. 2-3 in Hyannis.

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Chris Beukman
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The Rev. Christiaan A. Beukman has been appointed to serve as archdeacon, beginning Dec. 1.  He succeeds the Rev. W. Michael Hamilton, who has been serving as archdeacon for ordained vocations since 2015.

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Actions of the 233rd annual Diocesan Convention, held on Saturday, Nov. 2 in Hyannis, are available at www.diomass.org/diocesan-convention-2018, including resolutions in final form and election results. Video and text of Bishop Alan M. Gates's annual address to the convention are available here. …
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