Episcopal, ELCA Presiding Bishops issue World AIDS Day 2011 letter

United Thank Offering awards $1.6 million for mission and ministry in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion

Applications now accepted for Episcopal Church Young Adult Service Corps

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori issues statement

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued the following statement concerning Bede Parry. ____________________________________________________________________ Bede James Parry was serving as organist and music director at All Saints Church, Las Vegas, when I became aware of him.  His arrival preceded my own in the Diocese of Nevada. He approached me to inquire about being […]

Episcopal Church Facts and Figures

New facts and figures about membership in the Episcopal Church have been posted on the Research page: www.episcopalchurch.org/research Among the facts:– Membership in the Episcopal Church is 2,125,012, with 1,951,907 in the domestic dioceses and 173,105 in the non-domestic dioceses. – Sixteen domestic dioceses showed growth in the past year: Alabama, Arkansas, Atlanta, Central Gulf […]

A message from the Episcopal Church Executive Council

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preaches at Salt Lake City Cathedral on Sunday of Executive Council meeting

“You may not be 100 per cent certain about what God is asking of you, but go on out there anyway and change the world – by loving your neighbor as yourself,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in her October 23 sermon. The Presiding Bishop preached on Sunday at St. Mark’s Cathedral […]

Presiding Bishop opens Executive Council; video available at www.episcopalchurch.org

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori opened the Executive Council meeting in Salt Lake City today with an address that called for a mission focused budget using the Five Marks of Mission. A video of the Presiding Bishop’s remarks are available on the home page of the website: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ The following is the Presiding […]

Episcopal Church conference Everyone Everywhere 2011 explores the meaning of mission

Videos of conference available at  http://archive.episcopalchurch.org/ee11.htm The four-day Episcopal Church conference Everyone Everywhere 2011 concluded on October16 with a multi-national, multi-language Eucharist which included lively music that prompted singing, clapping and some dancing. Eucharist preacher Bishop Stacy Sauls challenged the conference attendees in his sermon: “Mission is not about something we do.  It is about […]

Presiding Bishop opens Episcopal mission conference: Everyone Everywhere 2011

“What gates and walls need to be opened in order to take up the work God sends us to do,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori asked in her sermon at the opening service of Everyone Everywhere 2011.  “ Some of them are in our own hearts.” The four-day Everyone Everywhere 2011 kicked off October 13 […]