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[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe, in his first week in office, has made a series of changes to churchwide staffing that were, Rowe said in a Nov. 4 letter to church leaders, “the result of discernment on the part of the people involved, and I give thanks for their dedication and love for…

[Episcopal News Service] St. John’s Episcopal Church in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, has offered a community meal every Wednesday evening since the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Last week’s meal was particularly meaningful. About 65 people gathered Oct. 30 to share chicken enchiladas, black beans and rice, mango ice cream – and to reconnect…

[World Council of Churches] An Africa-Europe Ecumenical Roundtable on the legacies of colonization and the future of ecumenical relations took place in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 24-25. The gathering drew Christian leaders from Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Cameroon, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Haiti, Kenya, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Togo, the United Kingdom, Zambia, and Zimbabwe….

[Anglican Communion News Service] A scientist who played a major role in the Human Genome Project and other guests from the international science community joined members of the Anglican Communion Science Commission as they met for a consultation event Oct. 29-31. The event took place at Virginia Theological Seminary and welcomed representatives from 25 provinces of…

Members of St. John’s, Franklin, Pennsylvania, where Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe served as rector from 2000-2007, celebrate his investiture before the start of the livestream of the service. Photo: Shawn Clerkin [Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians gathered in locations across the church Nov. 2 to watch the livestream of the investiture of the 28th presiding bishop, the…

Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe preaches Nov. 2, 2024, at his investiture in the Chapel of Christ the Lord at the church’s headquarters in New York, in this image taking from the livestream of the service. [Episcopal News Service] The Most Rev. Sean Rowe took office Nov. 1 as The Episcopal Church’s 28th presiding bishop. On…

The 27th Presiding Bishop Michael Curry presents 28th Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe with the primatial staff during Rowe’s investiture Nov. 2 at Chapel of Christ the Lord at the church’s New York headquarters, as seen on the service’s livestream. [Episcopal News Service] The Most Rev. Sean Rowe began his nine-year term as the 28th presiding…

The Rt. Rev. Emily Awino Onyango, who serves as assistant bishop of the Diocese of Bondo in the Anglican Church of Kenya, studied gender-based violence in her country and across Africa while on sabbatical in October 2024 at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. Photo: Center for Anglican Communion Studies at VTS [Episcopal News Service] Gaining…

St. Peter’s-San Pedro Episcopal Church in Salem, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 by Philip English, a wealthy merchant of French Huguenot descent who along with his wife, Mary English, was accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials between 1692 and 1693. Photo: Wikimedia Commons [Episcopal News Service] Every October, more than a million people…

[Anglican Communion Office] The Lambeth Call on Human Dignity will be the focus of a webinar on Nov. 6 and 7, facilitated by the Episcopal Ministry team of the Anglican Communion Office. Since the Lambeth Calls were shared at the 2022 Lambeth Conference, the Episcopal Ministry team have been running a webinar series to explore…