All are invited to a 7 p.m. prayer service tonight at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 24901 Orchard Village Road, Santa Clarita in response to this morning’s tragic Saugus High School shooting that killed one student and wounded four others, according to news reports. “The entire community of St. Stephen’s offers its prayers and support to […]
CHRIS TUMILTY, a member of the Diocese of Los Angeles communications team, has been tapped as communications director for the Diocese of San Diego, according to a Nov. 13 announcement from Bishop Susan Brown Snook. “Chris’ particular area of expertise is online, digital, and video communications, and we are very excited about the skills and […]
LIKE ALL PEOPLE, EPISCOPALIANS are creatures of habit, though perhaps a little more so. Our unofficial motto, of course, is “we’ve always done it that way.” And yet this November, as we head to convention, we’re experiencing substantial shifts in both space and time. As with Elizabeth’s first prayer book, reoccupying the Riverside Convention Center […]
AS 2019 DRAWS TO A CLOSE and we all gear up for the new year, The Episcopal News is making some major changes as we shift our priorities in order to better serve the Diocese of Los Angeles with timely news about its congregations, institutions, people and leaders. With the consent and encouragement of Bishop […]
DELEGATES AND VISITORS to this year’s Diocesan Convention, Nov. 15 – 16 at the Riverside Convention Center, will find plenty to enlighten and inspire, including a lecture delivered by civil rights legend Dolores Huerta and a presentation by Benjamin Shirley, a celebrated composer who once was homeless on the streets of Los Angeles and now works with […]
“LET’S DISPENSE WITH THE OLD CANARD about religion and politics,” the Very Rev. Gary Hall, retired dean of Washington National Cathedral, told the third annual Bishop’s Dinner on Nov. 2. at St. John’s Cathedral in Los Angeles. “The church has an absolute right — indeed a duty — to be an active participant in the […]
Bishop John Harvey Taylor, Dean Sylvia Sweeney and members of the Bloy House board of trustees joined Bishop Guy Erwin of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Southwest California Synod to sign a lease agreement for the Episcopal seminary — formally known as Episcopal School of Theology at Claremont or ETSC — to move into […]
HERMINIA “MINI” HIPOLITO PAUSED recently to reflect on her more than three decades of ringing up sales and dishing up motherly advice to laity, bishops and clergy customers at the Cathedral Bookstore at St. Paul’s Commons in Echo Park. She was readying her traveling bookstore — a mainstay at diocesan conventions, clergy conferences, ECW meetings […]
LOS ANGELES BISHOP DIOCESAN JOHN HARVEY TAYLOR on October 22 welcomed more than a hundred well-wishers to the official dedication and open house of St. Paul’s Commons in Echo Park. Formerly known as the Cathedral Center of St. Paul, the facility will continue to function as headquarters for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, as […]
THE HISTORIC CATHEDRA of the Bishop of Los Angeles and original chair of the Bishop Suffragan of Los Angeles journeyed Oct. 18 to St. John’s Cathedral, taking their places near the high altar after 25 years in Echo Park at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul, now St. Paul’s Commons. St. John’s is the […]
