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Southland Episcopalians said a June 20 pilgrimage to visit asylum-seekers at the Adelanto Detention Center in commemoration of World Refugee Day ended in frustration and anger when authorities prevented them from entering the troubled facility. Instead, a few members of the interfaith group formed a small prayer circle in front of the detention center and […]
As John H. Taylor is ordained to the episcopate July 8 and prepares to become seventh bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles upon Bishop J. Jon Bruno’s retirement, The Episcopal News takes a look back at their predecessors, the bishops who led the diocese from its beginnings as part of the Diocese of California. […]
In our increasingly complex world, Jesus’s words in Matthew 25 hold deepened meaning as we contemplate what it truly means to feed the hungry, refresh the thirsty, and shelter those fleeing oppression in all its forms. In this regard, recent weeks have seen the diocesan community engaged in heightened advocacy for individuals and families in […]
Bishop J. Jon Bruno on June 21 appointed the Rev. Canon Charleen Crean as archdeacon of the diocese, effective Aug. 1. Crean will succeed retiring Archdeacon Joanne Leslie, who has served in that position since 2011. Bruno also appointed Canon Hank Gatlin of St. Francis’ Church, Palos Verdes Estates, to the newly created position of […]
The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno named one priest and two laypeople to the “Order of Angels” and 16 as honorary canons of the Cathedral Center of St. Paul during a banquet May 9 during the annual Clergy Conference, held this year at the Mission Inn in Riverside. The Order of Angels, established by Bruno […]
November 11, 1923 – June 14, 2017 The Rev. Canon Roger Hoffman Wood, former rector of Church of the Epiphany, Los Angeles, and former chaplain at The Episcopal Home, died June 14 at his home in Sierra Madre. He was 93. A service will be held on Wednesday, June 21, 10 a.m. at Church of […]
The Very Rev. Canon Melissa J. McCarthy — vicar of Epiphany, Oak Park, and dean of the diocese’s El Norte deanery encompassing Santa Barbara and Ventura counties — will serve incoming Bishop Coadjutor-elect John Harvey Taylor as canon to the ordinary, it was announced May 14. The position combines the traditional title of “canon” or […]
August 2, 1939 – May 6, 2017 The Rev. Canon Warren Stanley Nyback, rector emeritus of St. Paul’s, Pomona, and a former diocesan chaplain to retired clergy and spouses, died Saturday, May 6, at his home in Pilgrim Place, Claremont. He was 77 and had suffered the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. Survivors include his husband, […]
August 10, 1951 – April 19, 2017 The Rev. Canon Deborah Dunn, rector of St. Peter’s, Santa Maria, and a former deployment officer for the Diocese of Los Angeles, died April 19 at Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, after suffering heart failure and complications of a stroke. She was 65 and had served as rector in […]
1929 – April 16, 2017 A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, June 17 for Canon Roger Thomas at St. James’ Church, 3903 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. He died April 16 at 88. He was a lifelong member of St. James in-the-City Episcopal Church and member of the Episcopal Church Foundation. He […]
The annual Red Shirt Project, which takes young people from Los Angeles and other dioceses on a pilgrimage to work and learn with the Oglala-Lakota people of Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, will get an international dimension this year as the Rt. Rev. Don Tamihere, newly ordained bishop of Tairawhiti, the Maori homeland churches […]
The Rev. Yein Esther Kim says attending the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) in New York March 13 – 24 was amazing, powerful and ought to happen all the time, not just two weeks each year. She and others hope to take that recommendation for consideration by deputies to […]
