of our parishes are served by a full-time priest.I have sought to translate Bishop Grafton's vision of how a bishop and a diocese can respond to such a crisis, a vision he brought to America from the Puseyite Movement in England into three goals for the Diocese of Western New YorkR...
Rowe was 32 in May 2007, when he was elected bishop of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania, based in Erie. For almost 12 years, he was the youngest bishop in the Episcopal Church. In 2019, he also began overseeing the Diocese of Western New York, based in Buffalo. The adjacent d...
According to the Episcopal Diocese of New York, the deacon acts much like the chief household servant would have in ancient time. The deacon is the cup-bearer and the table-setter for the Lord's Supper. Deacons pass announcements to the congregation and dismiss the assembly after the service....
A more serious commentary is offered by the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts. “[The priest] also asks that the Holy Spirit will make holy both us and the bread and wine so that they will be the Body and Blood of our Lord and Savior,” says its booklet The Holy Eucharist....
of three important men to the episcopate. John Henry Hobart, a man of great zeal and devotion, became bishop of New York in 1811; Alexander Viets Griswold (1766-1843), a man of piety and force, became bishop of the eastern diocese of New England in 1811; and Richard Channing Moore (...
The Episcopal church is led by bishops. Each bishop presides over its own diocese, which is a small number of churches in one area. ... The Presbyterian church, on the other hand, is largely governed by theGeneral Assembly, which represents the entire denomination instead of a group of bi...
Educated in Birmingham and Oxford University, he is currently a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. He conducts the Solihull Choral Society, functions as the Organ Adviser to the Diocese of Worcester, and is the organist at Birmingham University. He concertizes extensively in the United ...
Amongst these are the various careful studies of the Rev. Francis Havergal, Dean Merewether's exhaustive "Statement of the Condition and Circumstances of the Cathedral Church of Hereford in the Year 1841," and "The Diocese of Hereford," by the Rev. H.W. Phillott. My best thanks are also...
Diocese of Western New York, based in Buffalo. The adjacent dioceses, with less than 10,000 members between them, have been collaborating on ministries in recent years.He said that sort of collaboration is just one example of how the church needs to adapt to new realities."It's not to...
At the time of this country's birth, the Episcopal Church was the church of the establishment favored by the leaders of our country and the socioeco- nomic elite. Those who remember the 1950s and 1960s recall the glory and grandeur of the Episcopal Church. Now that we're at a time ...