Media Advisory: Episcopal Church Executive Council to meet virtually Jan. 24-27

In keeping with a leadership decision to suspend all in-person meetings sponsored by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society through February due to the omicron variant’s impact on public health, the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church will convene a virtual meeting Jan. 24-27.

Presiding Bishop Curry invites gifts to Absalom Jones Fund for Episcopal HBCUs

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry invites people of all backgrounds and faiths to support the hope-filled, life-impacting work of two historically Black institutions of higher education through donations and dedicated offerings on the Feast of Absalom Jones—the first Black priest ordained by the church—observed Feb. 13.

Presiding Bishop Curry highlights ‘moment of peril and promise’ on one-year anniversary of Jan. 6 attack

Following a Jan. 6 noon Epiphany service at Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C., Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry shared words of reflection and exhortation to the church and nation in a videotaped message from the Lincoln Memorial.

Presiding Bishop invites applicants for 2022 UN Commission on the Status of Women virtual delegation

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry invites applications for Episcopal delegates—including youth—to represent The Episcopal Church virtually at the 66th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW66), March 14–25.

Statement from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Toward GC80: Vaccinations to be required of all attendees

All those attending The Episcopal Church’s 80th General Convention in Baltimore in July will be required to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or submit a medical exemption in advance for approval, according to a newly adopted resolution by the Joint Standing Committee on Planning and Arrangements.

Leaders elected for presiding bishop nominating committee

The members of the Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop have elected leaders, among other initial steps in their work to present at least three nominees to stand for election as the Episcopal Church’s 28th presiding bishop at General Convention in 2024.

Oneida Nation to host Native voices during Winter Talk

The Episcopal Church Office of Indigenous Ministries invites all Episcopalians to watch a livestream of Winter Talk 2022, an annual multiday conference that honors and highlights Indigenous and Native American traditions and contributions within the church. The event will be hosted for the first time by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.

Diocese of Upper South Carolina notified of successful canonical consent process

The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina has received notification from Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael B. Curry that Bishop-elect Daniel P. Richards has received the required majority of consents in the canonical consent process detailed in Canon III.11.3. The consents received have been certified by the Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe, Registrar of the General Convention.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Christmas Message 2021: ‘In the name of these refugees, let us help all refugees’

“The Christmas stories are reminders that this Jesus came to show us how to love as God loves. And one of the ways we love as God loves is to help those who are refugees, those who seek asylum from political tyranny, poverty, famine, or other hardship.”