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[Episcopal News Service] Angel Rivera was ordained and consecrated bishop of the Diocese of Cuba Sept. 18 at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Havana. Rivera’s ordination marks a significant step toward self-determination for the Havana-based church in Cuba, which formally reunified with The Episcopal Church in 2020 after five years of efforts that included approval by the 79th General Convention in 2018 in Austin, Texas. The diocese is now part of Province II, which also includes the […]

[Episcopal News Service] A quick Episcopal liturgical quiz: How many rites for Holy Eucharist are contained in the Book of Common Prayer? If you said four, you’d be wrong – the prayer book offers the traditional Rite One, the contemporary Rite Two and a third liturgical order available for special circumstances – but a liturgy known as “Rite 4” does exist, if only at one congregation, St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Rite 4 is the name given by […]

[Episcopal News Service] Dallas Bishop George Sumner said Sept. 18 in a message to the diocese that he intends to retire from leadership of the diocese on Jan. 1, handing ecclesiastical authority to his successor Bishop Coadjutor Robert Price, who was consecrated earlier this month. “I will have completed a little more than 10 years as bishop, and will be closing in on the age of 71 (in my 51st year of church work),” Sumner said. “At that time, Stephanie and I will be moving to Boston, […]

[Episcopal News Service – Rome, Italy] In an increasingly polarized world in which governments worldwide are decreasing funding and support for refugees and migrants, the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center here provides the kind of support that can be modeled throughout The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. Based at St. Paul’s Within the Walls Episcopal Church and named for its founder, the center is a ministry that dates to the 1980s; it takes a holistic approach to serving refugees and […]

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians from across the Diocese of Massachusetts joined a large group of community members on Sept. 16 in rallying behind an immigrant from Honduras before she appeared at a morning appointment with federal immigration officials. Organizers estimate about 500 people attended the event outside the Burlington office of U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement to support Blanca Martinez, an asylum-seeker who fears deportation under the Trump administration’s […]

[Episcopal News Service — Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic] After visiting several mission sites in the Santo Domingo-based Diocese of the Dominican Republic, engaging in conversations on The Episcopal Church’s role in today’s society and worshiping alongside some 800 Dominican Episcopalians, Episcopal bishops and their spouses are leaving their fall gathering with a “sense of what the expressions of the local church are.” “We have a lot to learn from dioceses that are part of The […]