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Bishops attend the opening Eucharist of the Lambeth Conference in July 2022 at Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England. Photo: Richard Washbrooke for The Lambeth Conference. [Episcopal News Service] The GAFCON statement’s potential impact was evident as soon as it landed Oct. 16. It immediately provoked intense reactions in Anglican circles around the world. The conservative…

St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church in Tucson, Arizona. Photo: St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church [Episcopal News Service] Six historic Episcopal parishes are listed among 29 churches and one synagogue selected to receive capital grants of up to $500,000 for preservation efforts, community engagement and fundraising projects. The 30 grantees were selected…

[Episcopal News Service] Seven Episcopal dioceses have requested and received assessment waivers, meaning they will not be required to pay the full 15% of diocesan revenue to support the churchwide budget in 2026. Those waivers were approved by Executive Council at its Oct. 20-21 meeting at Kanuga, the Episcopal conference center and camp in the…

[Episcopal News Service] Amiayia White, 28, a mother and resident of an Episcopal-supported transitional family program at Wilmer Hall in Mobile, Alabama, was shot and killed there on Oct. 21. “Last night, a former companion of one of the residents in our transitional family program broke into the cottage where she was staying with her…

The 82nd General Convention is scheduled for July 3-8, 2027, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona. Photo: Phoenix Convention Center [Episcopal News Service – Hendersonville, North Carolina] Churchwide leaders got a first look Oct. 21 at a vision of what The Episcopal Church’s General Convention soon could become. When the churchwide governing body meets…

The Most Rev. Marinez Santos Bassotto is primate of the Anglican Episcopal Church in Brazil and bishop of the Amazon. [Episcopal News Service] The Most Rev. Marinez Santos Bassotto, primate of the Anglican Episcopal Church in Brazil and bishop of the Amazon, on Oct. 20 said that the voices of Indigenous people and advocacy for…

[Church of England] A group of bishops have joined with members of Parliament and peers from a range of parties in a joint letter to the prime minister, calling for the “immediate, complete removal” of the two-child limit on benefits. Among signatories to the letter to Sir Keir Starmer handed to Downing Street on Oct. 21…

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Coalition for Racial Equity’s steering group sent an Oct. 21 letter stressing the need for The Episcopal Church to publicly support migrant communities pastorally and practically. “We ask the whole church to unite in prayer, action and solidarity to proclaim that in Christ there are no strangers or foreigners, only…

[Church in Wales] The new archbishop of Wales will be enthroned at a special service in November. Monmouth Bishop Cherry Vann will be enthroned as the 15th archbishop of Wales in a national service at Newport Cathedral in the Diocese of Monmouth on Saturday, Nov. 8. It follows her election as archbishop in July. She has…

Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe speaks Oct. 20 in the opening morning session of Executive Council, meeting at Kanuga in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Hendersonville, North Carolina] Executive Council, The Episcopal Church’s interim governing body, is meeting here Oct. 20-21 at a time of growing political turmoil in…