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All Saints’ Episcopal Church has purchased and will renovate a former United Methodist church to serve as the Episcopal congregation’s new home. Photo: All Saints’ Episcopal Church [Episcopal News Service] A prominent Episcopal congregation in Fort Worth, Texas, that was forced out of its church building and rectory in 2021 over a property dispute with…

[Anglican Church of Canada] Archdeacon Alan Perry is no longer the general secretary of General Synod, per a press release posted on anglican.ca Sept. 3. The release does not specify a reason for the ending of his employment in the role. It states that he is a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada in good…

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Catholics gather outside the Church of Gesù after they attended a Mass on Sept. 6 for the Jubilee Year in Rome. Photo: Sipa via Associated Press [Episcopal News Service – Rome, Italy] Marianne Duddy-Burke rested in the shade outside St. Paul’s Within the Walls on Sept. 6 after a historic day for…

Scott Bader-Saye was installed as the ninth president and dean of the Seminary of the Southwest in January 2025. Photo: Seminary of the Southwest [Episcopal News Service] The Board of Seminary of the Southwest yesterday terminated President and Dean Scott Bader-Saye “effective immediately,” according to a Sept. 5 letter to alumni and friends from the…

Corey Schlosser-Hall, the Presbyterian Church’s deputy executive director, gives introductory remarks Sept. 2 at the Faithful Futures conference, held at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Minneapolis, Minnesota] Some of the most tech-forward minds in the Protestant church gathered here this week at the Faithful Futures…

[Episcopal News Service] The Very Rev. Bernard J. Owens, dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 4 issued a statement saying the cathedral’s communications manager, Brett Boardwine, has been placed on administrative leave after he was charged with attempted sexual conduct with a minor, and “importuning,” the legal term for soliciting a…

[Episcopal News Service] New Hampshire Bishop Robert Hirschfeld announced in a Sept. 5 emailed message to the diocese that he plans to retire in March 2027, starting the diocese on the process to seek and elect his successor. Hirschfeld, the diocese’s 10th bishop, was consecrated and took office in August 2012, having previously served as…

Conferring before the ordination service in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 7, 1975, were (from left) the Rev. Lee McGee, Bishop George W. Barrett, the Rev. Alison Palmer, the Rev. Diane Tickell and the Rev. Betty Rosenberg. Photo: Carolyn Aniba/Archives of The Episcopal Church [Episcopal News Service] On Sept. 7, St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal…

[Church of England] The Church of England’s latest cathedral statistics show continued growth in 2024, with weekly attendance rising to 31,900, an increase 11% compared to 2023. The rise was driven particularly by midweek services, which saw a 15% increase in adult attendance and a 16% increase in child attendance, although still lower than the pre-pandemic…

Debris from the Altadena home of the Rev. Melvin “Mel” Soriano, priest associate for faith, formation and finance at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles and chaplain of Canterbury USC, after it was destroyed by wildfires in January 2025. Photo: Mel Soriano/Facebook [Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians in the Diocese of Los Angeles are continuing…