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The Diocese of Vermont’s Green Mountain Online Abbey offers 13 online services of daily prayer each week, including this Compline service earlier this year. Photo: Screenshot by adwoa Wilson [Episcopal News Service] A March 15, 2020, online gathering for people in the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont – when the specter of COVID-19 was just appearing…

Louisville, Kentucky, the state’s largest city, hosted the 81st General Convention of The Episcopal Church June 23-28, 2024. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The triennial Episcopal family reunion, worship extravaganza and legislative session that is General Convention was back in full force during its meeting here after the pandemic…

[Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] In the final two days of General Convention, the House of Deputies acted on the last of the 43 resolutions coming from the legislative committees on Prayer Book, Liturgy & Music. All of them first were considered by the House of Bishops, the house of initial action for all…

Milwaukee, Fond du Lac and Eau Claire deputies celebrate the House of Deputies approving their dioceses’ reunion as the Diocese of Wisconsin on June 28. Photo: Scott Gunn [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The Episcopal Church again has a Diocese of Wisconsin. As one of its final acts of its June 23-28 meeting, the…

[Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] Resolution D013, “Affirm the Imperative of a Palestinian State,” has become an act of General Convention. Both houses passed the resolution June 28, finishing the slate of resolutions related to the Holy Land. The resolution affirms the need for an independent Palestinian state to exist alongside the state of…

The Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe was elected The Episcopal Church’s 28th presiding bishop on June 26, 2024, during the 81st General Convention held in Louisville, Kentucky. Photo: Office of Public Affairs [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] Presiding Bishop-elect Sean Rowe and the installation planning and transition committees announced June 28 that Rowe’s installation service…

South Dakota Deputy Deanna Stands (right) leads the House of Deputies in reciting the Prayer of the Innocents, which is part of resolution C032, after deputies joined bishops in adopting it. Supporting Stands are Navajoland Area Mission deputies the Rev. Michael Sells and the Rev. Cathleen Plummer. Photo: Screenshot [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky]…

The deputation from the dioceses of Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan gather on the platform in front of the House of Deputies on June 28 after the deputies’ vote authorizing the dioceses’ juncture as the new Diocese of the Great Lakes. Photo: Scott Gunn [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] A nearly five-year journey of…

International visitors and Episcopal Church staff pause during a tour of General Convention. From left: the Rev. Canon C.K. “Chuck” Robertson, canon to the presiding bishop for Ministry Beyond The Episcopal Church; the Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba, archbishop of Cape Town; the Rev. Daniel Karanja, Africa Partnership officer for The Episcopal Church; the Rt. Rev….

Presiding Bishop-elect Sean Rowe preached during the final worship service at the 81st General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. June 28, 2024. Photo: Andrew Morehead [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] In his first sermon as presiding bishop-elect, the Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe said The Episcopal Church needs to be ready to tolerate uncertainty, make sacrifices…