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This is the first in a series of question-and-answer columns from the Bishop Search Committee. Wondering what’s going on? Looking for details? Ask the committee by submitting questions here. Q. I know somebody who’d make a great bishop for our diocese. How can I submit their name? A. This is just the sort of question […]
This story was corrected March 21 to reflect St. Paul’s, Ventura, as the correct location for Deanery 1’s April 5 listening session. The News regrets the error. The Bishop Search Committee in-person listening sessions, designed to gather input for the November 2025 election of a successor to the Rt. Rev. John Harvey Taylor, are scheduled […]
The March 12 opening of Orchard View Gardens, the affordable 66-unit senior housing complex at St. Joseph’s, Buena Park, marked the culmination of over a decade of work towards developing affordable housing on St. Joseph’s property. The completion of the project is also another major milestone in the diocesan mission to create affordable housing on […]
Parishioners of the Diocese of Los Angeles will soon have opportunities to share their thoughts on what they seek in their next bishop: listening sessions across the diocese and an online survey. Starting March 22, the Bishop Search Committee is planning a series of gatherings — some in person, some by Zoom — to hear […]
This story was corrected March 21 to reflect St. Paul’s, Ventura, as the correct location for Deanery 1’s April 5 listening session. The News regrets the error. The Bishop Coadjutor Search Committee has scheduled listening sessions around the diocese March 22 – April 26 to hear the thoughts, needs, and desires of parishioners, clergy, and […]
Video of the panel discussion, keynote address, available on the diocesan YouTube. Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor welcomed 85 sojourners to St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park, March 9 for a Holy Land virtual pilgrimage, dinner, and panel discussion titled “Christians in Iraq, Palestine and Syria: A Contemporary Perspective,” featuring Canon Iyad Qumri and others […]
The Standing Committee is seeking applications from parishioners who would like to serve on the Transitions Committee for the election of our bishop coadjutor. Applications are now open, in English here and Spanish here. “This is the team that will introduce the candidates to the diocese and the diocese to the candidates,” said the Rev. Kate Cress, president […]
Two months after the Los Angeles wildfires, they were fresh on everyone’s minds this morning as interfaith and ecumenical leaders met with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park. Co-sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Council of Religious Leaders, the hour-long, off-the-record conversation, which I moderated, […]
[The Episcopal News] – Members of St. Paul’s Church in Pomona launched a ministry to help dress young girls around the world and revitalized community in their own backyard. On a recent Saturday, about a dozen women and men in the church’s Sophia room were busily laying out patterns, cutting, stitching, and ironing vibrant animal […]
Orchard View Gardens, the affordable housing development at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Buena Park, is set for a grand opening ceremony March 12. Bishop John Harvey Taylor, National CORE team members, local officials, and others will celebrate with St. Joseph’s and welcome residents to the building. The congregation of St. Joseph’s has been working […]
At the diocesan celebration of the Feast of Absalom Jones Feb. 22, Ben Harper’s “With my Own Two Hands” resonated through the Church of the Advent, Los Angeles as the service began. “I can change the world /with my own two hands /make a better place /with my own two hands,” sang a soloist as […]
At 8 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, the Rev. George Packer will be at the corner of Topanga Canyon and Ventura boulevards in Woodland Hills, blessing commuters with ashes. He’ll be there at 6 p.m., too. Packer is deacon at Prince of Peace Episcopal Church, Woodland Hills, and in addition to organizing the parish’s “Ashes to […]
