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TREC provides report following recent meeting

July 16, 2013

Presiding Bishop invited to Anglican Church of Canada Synod

July 2, 2013

At the invitation of Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will visit the General Synod July 3 and 4 in Ottawa. Additionally, this year’s General Synod will be the first-ever Joint Assembly with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. More than 800 Anglicans, Lutherans, […]

Now available: Journal of General Convention 2012, Spanish translation of Constitution and Canons

July 1, 2013

Episcopal Church, ELCA Presiding Bishops' statement on Senate's passage of Comprehensive Immigration Reform

June 28, 2013

In response to the United States Senate’s vote to pass S. 744, the Senate’s immigration reform legislation, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson have issued the following joint statement.   United States Senate Passes Compassionate and Humane Immigration Reform   Today, Lutherans […]

A Word to the Churches

June 27, 2013

President of the House of Deputies Jennings on Supreme Court DOMA, Prop 8 rulings

June 26, 2013

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on US Supreme Court’s DOMA, Proposition 8 rulings

June 26, 2013

Applications accepted for 2014 Roanridge Trust Award Grants

June 26, 2013

President of House of Deputies on US Supreme Court Voting Rights ruling

June 25, 2013

The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies of The Episcopal Church, issued this statement in response to the United States Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County vs. Holder: In the summer of 1965, two weeks after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Myrick Daniels died […]

Applications accepted for DFMS Missioner for Young Adult and Campus Ministry

June 25, 2013

Applications are now being accepted for the position of Missioner for Young Adult and Campus Ministry on the staff of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (DFMS). This position reflects the priorities of Episcopal Church General Convention 2012 and focus on the Five Marks of Mission.  The position is full-time and does not require relocation. […]

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