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The Bishop Diocesan and Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles on July 8 respectively released statements on the sale of Newport Beach property owned by the Bishop as Corporation Sole. Those texts, including a link to the Standing Committee’s June 11, 2015 letter to Diocesan Council, appear below. Further comment is circumscribed […]
Meeting at General Convention in Salt Lake City, the House of Bishops made history twice June 27 when they elected the Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, bishop of North Carolina, as the 27th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Curry is the first African American and first person of color to be elected to the post. […]
Clergy of the Diocese of Los Angeles met May 3-5 to discuss the evolving nature of marriage, in anticipation of the 78th General Convention, which is poised to address marriage equality. Keynote speaker Rosemary Radford Ruether, a feminist theologian, professor and author, reminded both clergy and General Convention deputies at the annual conference that current […]
The acclaimed Walt Disney Concert Hall organ roared, purred, wept and rejoiced on June 12 under the hands of six highly accomplished organists who also serve congregations of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. A brass ensemble and a 200-voice choir joined them for several numbers — and at one point the entire audience rose […]
April 15, 1928 – June 13, 2015 The Rev. Canon Morris Vaughn Samuel Jr., senior canon of the diocese, died early on the morning of June 13. He was 87. He had most recently assisted at St. Mark’s Church, Van Nuys. A funeral service will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8 at […]
June 14, 1924 – October 10, 2015 Jean Sharley Taylor Lescoe, retired associate editor of the Los Angeles Times and member of All Saints Church, Pasadena, died Oct. 10. She was 91. Lescoe, who used the name Jean Sharley Taylor professionally, assisted the Diocese of Los Angeles and wider Episcopal Church as a two-time judge […]
November 10, 1941 – May 27, 2015 The Rev. Eugenio Ayala-Porfil, former vicar of Holy Family Mission, North Hollywood, and a priest of the Episcopal Church for nearly 50 years, died on May 27 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. Originally from Puerto Rico, he had served as priest in the Diocese of Los […]
December 7, 1932 – May 22, 2015 Joan Floyd Belliss, wife of the Rev. Richard Guy Belliss, former rector of All Saints Church, Riverside, and St. Anselm’s Church, Garden Grove, died May 22. She was 82. Most recently the couple lived in Corona, where Dick Belliss assists at St. John’s Church. The Rev. Canon John […]
The Congregation of St. Athanasius at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul celebrated its patronal festival and 150th anniversary on May 2 with a 5k walk-run; dedication of its new parish garden, part of which takes the form of a living labyrinth; and a special service that incorporated music from the Andrew Lloyd Webber–Tim Rice […]
One hundred fifty years ago, on April 19, 1865, the Rev. Elias Birdsall, rector of St. Athanasius Episcopal Church, eulogized President Abraham Lincoln, acknowledging the self-sacrificial and “awful responsibilities” the assassinated president had undertaken in guiding the nation through four years of bloody civil war that ultimately ended slavery. The eulogy and Lincoln’s leadership were […]
Bees, butterflies, boats, and beds and barrels on wheels are just some of the ways Southland Episcopalians are optimizing space and caring for creation. Inspired by Bishop J. Jon Bruno’s call to environmental and food justice, most of the diocese’s schools and churches are engaged in acts of green, many of them via Seeds of […]
In a deeply politicized country where environmental officials in Florida are forbidden to use the words “climate” and “change” together in a sentence, and where a presidential candidate dismisses the notion that greenhouse gases are causing the earth’s atmosphere to warm, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Episcopal Church hosted a forum March […]
