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Former Nebraska Bishop Joe Goodwin Burnett. Photo: School of Theology at the University of the South/Facebook [Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Joe Goodwin Burnett, who was bishop of Nebraska from 2003 to 2011, died on Nov. 14 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was 77. “Bishop Burnett is remembered as a pastor who came to deeply…

A candlelight vigil at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky, memorializes transgender individuals who’ve been targeted or murdered for being who they are. Nov. 20, 2023. Photo: John Nation [Episcopal News Service] On Nov. 20, Episcopal churches nationwide will observe Transgender Day of Remembrance by holding special worship services and prayer vigils to memorialize…

Editor’s note: The bishops issued the following statement in advance of the planned execution of Harold Wayne Nichols on Dec. 11. [Dioceses of Tennessee, East Tennessee and West Tennessee]  Since the 1958 General Convention of The Episcopal Church, our church has consistently called for an end to the death penalty. In 1979, 1991, 2000, 2015,…

Freida Herron, a lay leader, preaches at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Maryville, Diocese of East Tennessee. Herron graduated from the Episcopal Preaching Foundation’s lay preacher training program in 2023 and now serves as one of its trainers. In 2024, she became the first layperson to preach at the closing Eucharist of the Episcopal Parish…

[Church in Wales] The governing body of the Church in Wales will hold a special meeting this month to take action on the episcopal vacancy in the Diocese of Bangor. It will take place Nov. 25 at Venue Cymru in Llandudno. The governing body is the supreme legislature of the Church in Wales. Following the retirement…

[Office of the Archbishop of York] Reflecting on his recent visit to the region, the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell delivered a speech at Lambeth Palace during a Nov. 18 gathering of ecumenical church leaders and Christian agencies. A potion of the speech, with a link to it in its entirety, follows. Sisters and brothers, it…

[Episcopal News Service] The congregation of St. Philip-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Oreland, Pennsylvania, held its last worship services in its former church building in May 2016. Now, nearly 10 years later, that building’s legacy lives on in a new effort to support outreach ministries across the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia-based diocese, using proceeds from…

The Rev. Sarah Fisher, rector of St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church in Marietta, Georgia, was elected ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina on Nov. 15. Photo: Diocese of East Carolina [Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina] The Rev. Sarah Fisher, rector of St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church in Marietta, Georgia, was elected ninth bishop of…

The Very Rev. Miguelina Howell, dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, Connecticut, was elected the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts on Nov. 15. Photo: Diocese of Western Massachusetts [Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts] The Very Rev. Miguelina Howell, dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, Connecticut, was elected the 10th…

[Episcopal News Service] A 2025 version of a toolkit to help people “Break the Silence” around gender-based violence has been released by the Task Force on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Its aim is to help congregations in the diocese, as well as churches and dioceses elsewhere, mark the…