News Updates

News Updates

May 2007

• CANA Welcomes Recent Growth

  Members of four former congregations of The Episcopal Church were among six churches welcomed into the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) recently, according to a press release.

  Posted on May 30, 2007

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• Ugandan Primate Restates Intention to Boycott Lambeth

  The Church of Uganda will boycott the 2008 Lambeth Conference if the bishops who participated in the New Hampshire consecration are seated at the gathering of bishops from across the Anglican Communion.

  Posted on May 30, 2007

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• Trinity Seminary Names AMiA Bishop Rodgers Interim Dean

  The Rt. Rev. John H. Rodgers, Jr., has been appointed interim dean at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry.

  Posted on May 29, 2007

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• Family Friendly

  Consider carefully whether to add a third service (By Robert M. Ross)

  Posted on May 29, 2007

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• Building Faith-Focused Families

  New curriculum seeks a connection to the home (By Madeleine Lambert)

  Posted on May 29, 2007

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• Divine Reconciliation

  Community of the Cross of Nails stresses the imperative to forgive (By Willy Thorn)

  Posted on May 29, 2007

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• CDSP Graduates Commended at Commencement Ceremony

  Karen Bretl (M.Div.), from the Diocese of Oregon, receives her diploma during commencement exercises at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, Calif., May 18. (Richard Wheeler photo)

  Posted on May 29, 2007

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• Standing Committee Fires Three of Four Full-time Staff in Northwestern Pennsylvania

  The standing committee of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania has laid off three of the four full-time employees in the diocesan office. Members of the clergy and lay members of diocesan council were notified of the personnel changes in an email message dated May 22.

  Posted on May 25, 2007

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• Presiding Bishop Urges Calm Approach to Lambeth News

  Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori sent a short email message to members of the House of Bishops, urging “a calm approach” soon after it was announced May 22 that invitations to the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops had been sent and that Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire did not receive one.

  Posted on May 23, 2007

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• Global South Attendance at Lambeth Conference Doubtful

  The participation by the Nigerian House of Bishops and bishops from other “Global South” Anglican provinces is doubtful, according to the Most Rev. Peter Akinola, Archbishop of Nigeria.

  Posted on May 22, 2007

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