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[Anglican Communion News Service] The archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev. Cherry Vann, was enthroned in a national service at St. Woolos Cathedral, Newport, on Saturday, Nov. 8. Vann is the first woman to serve as archbishop of Wales. The enthronement followed her election by the Electoral College of the Church in Wales in July. At…

[Office of the Archbishop of York] Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory Nov. 8-11 on a pilgrimage of prayer and solidarity with the Most Rev. Hosam Naoum, the Anglican archbishop in Jerusalem. Together, they spent time in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the South Hebron Hills, Ramallah and Nazareth, meeting local church leaders,…

[Episcopal News Service] Veterans Day is Nov. 11, and this year, The Episcopal Church will mark the holiday honoring all those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces by presenting for the first time a livestreamed Veterans Day Holy Eucharist that will include a commissioning of chaplains. The service, which begins at 7 p.m….

[Episcopal News Service] In-person attendance has been down significantly this year at the two Sunday services, one in Spanish and the other bilingual, at Saint Teresa de Avila Episcopal Church on the Southwest Side of Chicago, Illinois. The congregation’s leaders can spell the reason with three letters: ICE. Saint Theresa de Avila’s mostly Latino worshippers…

Church of the Redeemer’s rector, the Rev. Charleston Wilson, said the Culverhouse Benevolence Fund represents the church in action. [Church of the Redeemer — Sarasota, Florida] Church of the Redeemer in downtown Sarasota has partnered with parishioner Hugh Culverhouse Jr. to establish the Culverhouse Benevolence Fund to help those in the parish and wider Sarasota community…

Noted primatologist Jane Goodall, who died Oct. 1, will be remembered at a Nov. 12 funeral service at Washington National Cathedral. Photo: Jane Goodall Institute [Episcopal News Service] Jane Goodall, primatologist, ethologist and conservationist, will be remembered Nov. 12 at a funeral service at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The invitation-only service will be…

Southern Ohio Bishop Kristin Uffelman White, left, and Indianapolis Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows pose for a selfie at the 2025 New York Marathon on Nov. 2. Photo: Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows [Episcopal News Service] Nov. 2 was a day of two significant and related “firsts” for Indianapolis Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows. It marked the first time in 37 years…

[Episcopal News Service]The Rt. Rev. Herbert Alcorn Donovan, Jr., who as bishop of Arkansas from 1980 to 1993, and later served other dioceses and parishes, died Nov. 2 in Colorado. He was 94. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary, he was ordained deacon and priest in 1957. He joined the…

Food distributions like this one in New York City, as well as the food ministries of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, are finding ways to help people impacted by the loss of SNAP benefits starting Nov. 1. Partial SNAP payments are due to resume, but the date for that is uncertain. Photo:…

Volunteers with Disarmory Ministries take parts of relinquished and destroyed guns and turn them into art. Photo: Diocese of Michigan [Diocese of Michigan] Episcopalians with Disarmory Ministries have been running gun destruction events in southeast Michigan for six months, and they have their process down. But when a woman recently drove up with a loaded…