Photos

Photos

January 2008

• Bishop Lawrence

  NEWLY CONSECRATED: South Carolina Bishop Mark Lawrence with a crosier made of California redwood given by Susan Frick, director of the Altar Guild at St. Paul’s, Bakersfield, Calif., and designed by artist Van Marshall of Summerville, S.C. (Bill Murton photo)

  Posted on January 26, 2008

• Lambeth launch

  LAMBETH OUTLOOK: Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams unveils plans for this summer's Lambeth Conference at a press conference Jan. 21. (ACNS photo)

  Posted on January 23, 2008

• Seamens Church Institute

  Seamens Church Institute chaplain the Rev. Jacques Girard (left) and volunteer Dennis Genovese help crew members of the Queen Victoria wire money home. SCI volunteers ministered to hundreds of crew recently when security procedures prevented them from going ashore. (SCI photo)

  Posted on January 17, 2008

• Bishop McKee Sloan

  NEW BISHOP: The Rev. John McKee Sloan at the service of his consecration as Suffragan Bishop of Alabama, held Jan. 12 at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham. (Polk Van Zandt photo)

  Posted on January 15, 2008

• Kenya relief

  Episcopal Relief and Development is responding to the violence in Kenya with its partner, Inter-Diocesan Christian Community Services, the development arm of four Anglican dioceses in western Kenya. Relief workers are providing food, shelter and blankets to an estimated 250,000 people displaced by the chaos. To help, visit www.er-d.org. (IDCCS photo)

  Posted on January 11, 2008

• Bishop Iker

  Bishop Jack Iker (above) and the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Fort Worth concluded in a preliminary report that affiliating with the Province of the Southern Cone would mean no changes in the day-to-day operations of the diocese's churches.

  Posted on January 10, 2008

• Nevada consecration

  NEW NEVADA BISHOP: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will consecrate the Very Rev. Dan Edwards, former rector of St. Francis Church, Macon, Ga., as Bishop of Nevada Jan. 5 at the Henderson Convention Center in Las Vegas.

  Posted on January 4, 2008

• St. Peter's Cathedral

  An excavator dismantles the office building at St. Peter’s Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Fla., making way for a new facility which will offer 18,000 square feet of office and meeting space. (Jim DeLa/The Southern Cross photo)

  Posted on January 3, 2008