Diocesan News

The Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, will preach at an interfaith prayer service on the eve of the U.S. Supreme Court's hearing of marriage equality cases on California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the…

[March 1, 2013]:  The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts will elect a bishop coadjutor next year to succeed the Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE upon his retirement. In a March 1 letter to clergy, wardens, Diocesan Convention delegates and leadership groups, the Standing Committee has outlined…

Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge and the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts announced on Feb. 15 that Diane D’Souza has been hired as director of the continuing education program at Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) and as director of the Mission Institute.  The Mission Institute is a new…

The newly founded Harvard Interfaith Prison Education project is bringing together an interfaith coalition of Harvard graduate and undergraduate students committed to mentoring incarcerated women and men who are working toward their bachelor degrees through Partakers and Boston University's College…

Six new diocesan staff members are now in place. The Rev. Dr. Edie Dolnikowski has been hired as the new canon for ordained vocations and will begin full time on Feb. 25.  She has been the associate rector at St. Andrew's Church in Wellesley…

[Episcopal Public Policy Network] The following message comes from Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori:  The United States has witnessed far too many public shootings in recent months and years. Far too many lives have been cut short or maimed by both random and targeted acts of gun…

A Diocese of Massachusetts delegation, led by Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, spent two weeks in December 2012 traveling in Tanzania and Uganda to visit mission partners there and see firsthand how health care and orphanage projects supported by this diocese are making a difference. “Our trip…