Photos

Photos

January 2009

• Bishop Gulick

  RECOMMENDED: Bishop Ted Gulick of Kentucky has been recommended by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori to be a part-time provisional Bishop of the reorganizing Diocese of Fort Worth. A special election will be held at a reorganizing convention Feb. 7.

  Posted on January 30, 2009

• St. Stephen's Escanaba

  St. Stephen's Church, Escanaba, Mich., will be the site of a special electing convention Feb. 21 for a bishop in the Diocese of Northern Michigan. (St. Stephen's Church photo)

  Posted on January 26, 2009

• Phillips Brooks

  A statue outside Trinity Church, Boston, honors the life and ministry of Phillips Brooks, that church's longtime rector. A renowned preacher and author, he also briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts. His feast day is January 23.

  Posted on January 22, 2009

• Inaugural

  "O Lord our Governor, bless the leaders of our land, that we may be a people at peace among ourselves and a blessing to other nations of the earth." (BCP, p. 821)

  Posted on January 20, 2009

• St. John's Lafayette Square

  CHURCH OF THE PRESIDENTS: President-elect Barack Obama will attend a service at St. John's Church, located on Lafayette Square across from the White House, prior to being sworn in as President Jan. 20.

  Posted on January 15, 2009

• Robinson inauguration

  INAUGURAL PRAYER: Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire is scheduled to deliver a prayer at a Jan. 18 inaugural event for President-elect Barack Obama. Bishop Robinson told the Associated Press "I will be careful not to be especially Christian in my prayer."

  Posted on January 12, 2009

• Julia Chester Emery

  MISSIONARY FERVOR: Julia Chester Emery, whose life and ministry are celebrated January 9, served as national secretary of the Women's Auxiliary of the Board of Missions from 1876 to 1916. She visited every diocese in the Episcopal Church, as well as several foreign countries, to support and stir up Christian missionary work.

  Posted on January 8, 2009

• St. Paul's Hicksville

  St. Paul's Church is featured on a Christmas ornament sold by the Hicksville (Ohio) Historical Society.

  Posted on January 2, 2009