Diocesan News

Bishop Shaw’s first meditation, given at Diocesan Convention on Nov. 4, 2011, is based on Mark 5:1-20.

In July Bishop Gayle E. Harris and the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center summer staff hosted Hadeel Saadeh, Yousef Barhoum and Rita Abu Hanna, guests of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts from the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem who spent two weeks at summer camp. They said they loved…

Delegates and clergy had the opportunity to share their ideas following the Together Now campaign program. PHOTO: Katie Ernst Delegates and clergy had the opportunity to share their ideas following the Together Now campaign program. PHOTO: …

Six hundred Episcopalians are expected to convene at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston Nov. 4-5 to take up the annual business of the Diocese of Massachusetts, this year to also include two special events:  a big farewell to a much-loved bishop as he retires and a long-anticipated…

During the Sept. 11 anniversary observance at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston, members of the congregation lit candles in remembrance of those who have died.  There was music by the MagnificatBoston choir, directed by Mark Engelhardt,…

The seawall at the Church of St. Mary of the Harbor in Provincetown at the height of the storm. The church itself only lost some roof shingles. (Courtesy PHOTO: The Rev. Terry Pannell) Hurricane Irene, downgraded to a tropical storm as it reached New England over the weekend,…

John C. Koch has been hired as the new interim executive director of the diocese's Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in Greenfield, N.H., and will begin work on site in early September.  He brings to the position 20 years of executive experience in Episcopal Church camp and…

PHOTO: Jason Stonehouse A delegation of Episcopalians from the Diocese of Vermont, and their bishop, Thomas Ely, joined the congregation at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston for the ordination service there on June 25.  Newly ordained (pictured, from left, with…