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Dr. R. William Franklin is academic fellow of the Anglican Centre in Rome and the associate director of the American Academy in Rome. The Rev. Public Broadcasting Service Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez speaks about Jerusalem during an Oct. 7 presentation hosted by the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem with the sponsorship of Philadelphia Theological Institute, the Diocese of Pennsylvania's Middle East Study Group and St. Peter's Episcopal Church where the event took place. Sandra S. Swan has begun service as the executive director of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief. The Rev. Maureen Shea, director of the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations since 2003, will retire September 1. Among those participating in an October 4 service in Chicago to celebrate 'full communion' among their churches were (from the left): Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick of the Presbyterian Church (USA); Presiding Bishop H. George Anderson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Dr. Addie Butler, vice president of the ELCA; the Rev. The Rev. Victor Atta-Baffoe and the Rev. Dr. Winfred Vergara, Missioner for Asian American Ministries of the Episcopal Church, preached at the service. Two major suicide bomb attacks in Baghdad on Sunday, Oct. 25, caused serious damage to St. George's Anglican Church and left at least 150 dead and more than 600 injured on the streets outside. House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson, right, and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori discuss the Episcopal Church's Executive Council January 29-31 meeting. John Beddingfield and Erwin de Leon following their civil wedding ceremony in Washington, D.C. Rosemari Sullivan to become director of alumni/ae affairs at the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS), beginning in early 2005. Samuel Kobia, has announced that he will not seek a second term at the head of the world's biggest Christian grouping. The Rev. A Palestinian family near the Israeli security wall at Abu Dis. Students canoe on Clear Creek at the Environmental Center at Camp McDowell, Diocese of Alabama. Dr. Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, associate professor of Pastoral Theology at Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will succeed Dr. Joanna Dewey as the seminary's Academic Dean effective July 1, 2005. James Morton (center), former dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, was a key member of the group writing a draft of an Earth Charter. P. Joshua "Griff" Griffin, environmental justice missioner in the Diocese of California, talk before the Eucharist on the first day of the Episcopal Climate Justice Gathering taking place in the Dominican Republic Dec. 7-10. Canon Paul-Gordon Chandler, mission partner with The Episcopal Church, is an author, Episcopal priest, and interfaith advocate serving as the Rector of St. John's Church in Cairo (www.maadichurch.org/www.paulgordonchandler.com). Mormon filmmaker Douglas Hunter. Napoleon Brito, dean of the Center of Theological Studies in Santo Domingo. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Episcopal priest and RWE co-chair; the Rev. Province1.org is rapidly picking up new members with free resources to share across the seven dioceses of the province (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Western Massachusetts) and beyond, according to a press release. John Lane, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Staunton, Virginia, is a former Executive Council member and deputy to General Convention. Greeting Pope John Paul II in summer of 2003 are (from left) Episcopal Bishop Jon Bruno and Mary Bruno of the Diocese of Los Angeles, and Carla and Bishop Wendell Gibbs of the Detroit-based Diocese of Michigan. James "Jay" Magness is the sixth bishop suffragan for federal ministries. Bishop Larry Maze of Arkansas and retired New Jersey Bishop Joe Morris Doss joined clergy and religious leaders on Capitol Hill May 22 to speak against passage of the so-called “Federal Marriage Amendment” (FMA). The Rev. Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central de American (IARCA) Primate Martin de Jesus Barahona, who is also the bishop of El Salvador, listens October 27 as IARCA General Secretary and Costa Rican Bishop Hector Monterroso speaks to the Executive Council's International Concerns and Administration and Finance committees. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the printing of the King James Bible, a work of religious, political and linguistic force that continues to shape the thinking and vocabulary of much of the English-speaking world. David Beetge, bishop of the Highveld. The Global Health Council in Washington, D.C., awarded to Dorothy Granada, a nurse and community organizer who is supported by a number of Episcopal churches and organizations, the "Best Practices in Global Health Award" on May 31, 2007. Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami lectures at Washington National Cathedral September 7. Dr. Donald S. Armentrout has announced his retirement as professor of church history and historical theology, the Charles Quintard Professor of Dogmatic Theology, and director of the Advanced Degrees Program at the University of the South School of Theology in Sewanee, Tennessee. Suheil Duwani, bishop coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of Jerusalem, speaks to pilgrims from Los Angeles before Eucharist at St. Andrew's Church in Ramallah. House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson, left and moderator Shellynne Allen react to a response Diocese of San Joaquin Chancellor Michael Glass gives to a question during a forum on leadership January 28 at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. The Rev. The National Episcopal conference for single adultS, Solo Flight, will assemble for its annual meeting in the Smoky Mountains of Hendersonville, North Carolina, August 31-September 3. Shawn Schreiner is rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park, Illinois. Soner Alexander of Haiti, Bishop Griselda Delgado Del Carpio of the Episcopal Church of Cuba, and the Rev. Describing themselves as representing the "broad center" of the Episcopal Church, six bishops were welcomed Oct. 23 as guests of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams at his London residence, Lambeth Palace. SCLM chair the Rev. Assistant Bishop Keith Whitmore of Atlanta (right center) invites a member of the Church of the Common Ground in downtown Atlanta to join the circle of clergy as they consecrate the Rev. Winnie Varghese, a member of Executive Council, is Episcopal chaplain at Columbia University in New York. Participants at the Sacred Circles Women’s Spirituality Conference in Washington, D.C. on February 14 envision clay as the vessels of their hearts in a workshop called The Soulwork of Clay. Celia Iannelli and her first husband, George Marszal. Communicators President Jim DeLa, left, and Herb Gunn, editor of the Diocese of Michigan's newspaper The Record, listen. John Beddingfield and Erwin de Leon, Seminarians demonstrate solidarity through water, A weekend of fasting and prayers for peace in Sudan, Standing Commission on Liturgy's churchwide consultation on same-gender blessings, Members of Religious Witness for the Earth, Eucharist at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold with Pope John Paul II, The Anglican Communion, Our Global Village, Sofia Cavalletti, a founder of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Christian formation curriculum, Consecration of the Diocese of Washington's ninth bishop, Public Broadcasting Service Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez, General Colin Powell speaks with veterans, Bishop James Curry of Connecticut and Bishop Thomas Ely of Vermont, House of Bishops meeting in Camp Allen, Texas, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, With NATO peacekeepers in place, many Kosovars are homeward bound, Eucharist celebrated at Common Cathedral on Boston Common, Episcopal designs new dome for Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Russian Orthodox Church experiencing religious renewal, Griswold presides at news briefing at Lambeth Conference, Volunteers from Mission Graphics and the Church of Our Savior, Chinatown, Manhattan, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Nevada with Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Pope John Paul, Greeting Pope John Paul II in summer of 2003, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold joined six presenters at the Anglican Consultative Council, Episcopal Church in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Church Divinity School of the Pacific 2006 honorary degree recipients, Rowan Williams, and the Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop Sentamu breaks his week-long fast, Recipients of the General Seminary's honorary doctorate, Author John Allen and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Presiding Bishop takes seat in Washington National Cathedral, US State Department Officials and Episcopal Church delegation, Participants from the 2006 Bridge Program, Sen. Bill Frist performs surgery during a mission trip to Africa in 2003, Winfred Vergara, director of Ethnic Congregational Development, The Primates meeting in Tanzania welcomed 3 USA Bishops, The Rt. Bishop and Mrs. Browning share an emtional moment with Mary Eoloff moments after Mordechai Vanunu was driven away from the prison where he had been held for 18 years. Canon Lloyd Allen of the Diocese of Honduras. Reginald H. Fuller, a prominent New Testament scholar and former professor of New Testament at the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) died April 4 in Richmond, Virginia from complications of surgery for a broken hip. Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. New York Bishop Mark Sisk (far right) replies by speaker phone to reporter’s question during House of Bishops’ March 21 news conference, joined by (clockwise from Sisk’s left) Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan Chester Talton, New York Bishop Suffragan Catherine Roskam, Mexico Primate Carlos Touche Porter, Lexington Bishop Stacy Sauls, Kansas Bishop Dean Wolfe, Maine Bishop Chilton Knudsen, Northern Indiana Bishop Edward Little, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, and Hawaii Bishop Richard Chang. Cape Town Archbishop and Anglican Primate of Southern Africa Njongonkulu Ndungane addresses the first full day of the Toward Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM) conference March 8 in Boksburg, South Africa. Malaria-control agents teach members of the Ngwenya Nama-tama Ward Community in Zambia how to properly use malaria nets. Author and PBS commentator Richard Rodriguez poses with hosts Bob Williams (left) and Lydia Lopez of the Diocese of Los Angeles before his keynote address at the annual meeting of Episcopal Communicators April 23-26. Rev. Hector Madrid, right, rector of a church and a dean in the Diocese of Honduras, speaks with visitors representing the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, including Rev. Bishop C. Christopher Epting, the Episcopal Church's deputy for ecumenical and interfaith relations, addresses the closing day of the National Council of Churches USA-sponsored conference on July 22. Susan Metzmaker, left, and Ann Thomas, both from St. Luke's-Long Beach, California, talk with Janet Chisholm, right, following her address to the Las Vegas event. Renita J. Weems, an ordained elder in the African Methodist Church and a Hebrew Bible scholar, will deliver the Joanna Dewey Lecture in Feminist Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 13. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, North Carolina. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori joins Caribbean bishops during the May 28-31 Caribbean Anglican Consultation (CAC) in Queens, New York. Theater-style seats are slated for removal as part of restoration of Shanghai's former Anglican cathedral, built in 1869 as Holy Trinity Church. Bishop Richard Shimpfky of El Camino Real greets the congreation during services at St. Paul's Church in Nanjing, with the help of interperters. James Simons, rector of St. Michael's of the Valley in Ligonier and chair of Across the Aisle, tells reporters after the Diocese of Pittsburgh's October 4 convention that he will determine by the end of next week if any other members of the Standing Committee besides himself will remain in the Episcopal Church. Donna Wilhelm, left, Julia Shearson, middle, and Martin Plax, right, play "7th Heaven," a new game designed to promote interfaith understanding among Christians, Muslims and Jews. Lisbon's Cathedral Church of St. Paul was overflowing with people June 21 as the Lusitanian Church in Portugal celebrated the 50th anniversary of the consecration of their first bishop. Armando Guerra Soria, primate of IARCA and Bishop of Guatemala, the Right Rev. During a 1998 visit to the Middle East, Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold celebrated the Eucharist at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. Antoinette (Toni) Daniels, director of Learning and Leadership with the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF), has been named center director for Partnerships at the Episcopal Church Center. Patrick Malloy to offer a blessing. "I looked for images and phrases that I had overlooked before and then played around with them in words and in images that started as doodles. The Rev. Wilfredo Benitez, rector of St. Anselm of Canterbury Episcopal Church in Garden Grove, addresses supporters of the Irvine 11 after the guilty verdict. Convened by the General Assembly, the summit was aimed at spurring action towards achieving internationally agreed goals to reduce hunger, poverty and disease. With Frade is his wife, Diana, right, in the background from left, the Rev. The Bishop's Chapel at Roslyn Conference & Retreat Center in Richmond, Virginia, was consecrated June 1 in honor of retired Diocese of Virginia Bishop Peter Lee. The Russian Orthodox Church is experiencing a renewal as it scrambles to restore thousands of churches returned after the break-up of the Soviet Union. Roy F. ("Bud") Cederholm, Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts at the Religious Witness for the Earth service at the UN in New York. The official news service of the Episcopal Church. Fred Small, Unitarian Universalist minister and RWE co-chair; Marla Marcum, chair of the Climate Change Task Force, New England Conference, United Methodist Church; the Rev. Heath Folmsbee with his parents, Judi and Rick Folmsbee. Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot was killed by the quake, according to the Associated Press. Attendees at a Solo Flight conference spend some time in relaxation. The Very Rev. A popular conference speaker and a member of The Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C., Diana Butler Bass is the author of Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Transforming the Faith (Harper San Francisco, 2006). The official news service of the Episcopal Church. The Rev. Chinnis died Aug. 24, 2011. Bishop K.H. , and Carla and Bishop Wendell Gibbs of the Detroit-based Diocese of Michigan. Rev. On the left, on June 14, those mass graves didn't exist. Duncan will become the proposed province's first archbishop and primate. From left, Amjad Atallah and Daniel Levy, co-directors of the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force, spoke on June 8 of new hope for Middle East peace and urged U.S. Christians to speak up in support of a two-state solution. Telesforo Isaac, retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic; the Rev. Wilfredo Benitez, rector of St. Anselm's Episcopal Church, Garden Grove. The Rt. Terry was a member of a delegation of Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops discussing unity. Our writers and readers come from numerous and varied backgrounds, and the resources we provide are used in small house churches, sprawling Rev Paul Kwong was elected as Primate of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (HKSKH) by bishops, clergy and deputies of the Anglican Church who met at St. Paul's Church February 3 to choose a successor to the Most Rev. William Weinhauer, 4th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, seated, died January 26. Canon James R. Mathes will be consecrated the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego March 5. The Church of England's General Synod on July 12 backed legislation that paves the way for women to become bishops. Bromley Mission reopened in 2003 with a new dedication to give a childhood and an education back to the children who had lost theirs to the war in Liberia. Episcopal Peace Fellowship members Amanda Goebel of Georgetown, Delaware, and Dan Randazzo of Annapolis, Maryland, prepare to lead a procession March 7 from Christ Church + Washington Parish, Capitol Hill to Upper Senate Park on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol for an interfaith service protesting the Iraq War. Moore has been president and board member of Communicators, served on the board of governors of Episcopal Life, and director of communications in the Diocese of Utah, University of the South and now the Diocese of Hawaii. Rev. From left, the six are: Assistant Bishop William Gregg of North Carolina, Bishop Clifton Daniel of East Carolina, Bishop Neff Powell of Southwestern Virginia, Bishop Michael Curry of North Carolina, Assisting Bishop Chip Marble of North Carolina, and Bishop Stacy Sauls of Lexington. 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