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Accokeek vestry settle differences

Accokeek vestry settle differences

The 18-month-long impasse between a vestry in Accokeek, Maryland, and the Diocese of Washington over the election of a rector was broken August 29 with the issuance of a joint statement between the vestry and Bishop John Chane, naming the Revd Stephen Arpee as the parish's new rector.

06 September 2002

Episcopalians, Lutherans and Roman Catholics to discuss the power of bishops

Episcopalians, Lutherans and Roman Catholics to discuss the power of bishops

Episcopalians, Lutherans and Roman Catholics will discuss the role and power of bishops in the contemporary church at an international conference from September 20-23, 2002 in Waltham, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Laity and clergy are welcome to this Anglican-Lutheran Society conference at the Espousal Retreat House and Conference Center.

06 September 2002

Ground Zero Parish 9/11 Program available on Web and ECTN

Ground Zero Parish 9/11 Program available on Web and ECTN

The Parish of Trinity Church, New York, is offering its 9/11 services streamed live on the web and on the Episcopal Cathedral Teleconferencing Network next Wednesday.

06 September 2002

Free copies of Meditational for September 11th Memorial Services

Free copies of Meditational for September 11th Memorial Services

Forward Movement Publications has a limited number of Day By Day "Meditations for a Time of Crisis" available for FREE.

03 September 2002

A ministry style we shall not see again - The Revd John Rye

A ministry style we shall not see again - The Revd John Rye

Watching John Rye at work in Africa was an experience like nothing else. He was a huge and volatile weather system in human form, soothing and soft one moment, stern, correct and formal the next, then changing to the balmiest pastoral wind only to shift again to sudden storm.

30 August 2002

Quincy's oldest congregation determined to rebuild after fire

Quincy's oldest congregation determined to rebuild after fire

St John's Episcopal Church, the "historic mother church" of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy which celebrated its 150th birthday this year, was gutted by a five-alarm fire caused by lightning early August 23, sustaining major damage.

30 August 2002

New Westminster dissidents take case behind closed doors

New Westminster dissidents take case behind closed doors

The normally public dealings of a group of Anglicans opposed to same-sex blessings in New Westminster have moved behind closed doors on the say-so of a Texas priest.

30 August 2002

Installation of Bishop Martin Barahona

Installation of Bishop Martin Barahona

Please remember in your prayers this weekend the people of the Anglican Church of the Central American Region [Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama], IARCA, as they install their second Primado Elegido, the Rt Revd Martin Barahona, Bishop of El Salvador. 

21 August 2002

A Day of Hope and Healing

A Day of Hope and Healing

The Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York is offering a series of worship services, presentations, concerts and opportunities for quiet reflection to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

21 August 2002

Churches plan to commemorate first anniversary of September 11 terrorist attacks

Churches plan to commemorate first anniversary of September 11 terrorist attacks

Churches across the nation are completing plans for special ways to commemorate the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon.

16 August 2002