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March 19, 2025

Diocesan Council hears impact of federal budget cuts, policy changes; celebrates new strides in affordable housing

“Mind of the diocese” resolutions decrying federal measures harming vulnerable communities will be on Diocesan Council’s April agenda, calling congregations to consider action against such policies. “Normally, Diocesan Convention does this, but it’s a long way until convention, and we are the body that stands for convention when it isn’t meeting,” said the Very Rev. […]

March 19, 2025

Glad you asked!

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 […]

March 18, 2025

All invited to Bishop Search Committee listening sessions

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 […]

March 12, 2025

Orchard View Gardens opens, housing low-income seniors at St. Joseph’s, Buena Park

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 […]

March 12, 2025

Search committee wants to hear from you: come to a listening session, take the survey

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 […]

March 12, 2025

Bishop Search Committee sets listening sessions across diocese starting March 22

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 […]

March 12, 2025

Christians in Iraq, Palestine, Syria are bridge-builders for understanding, panelists say; Canon Iyad Qumri encourages new pilgrimages

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 […]

March 12, 2025

Standing Committee invites applications for Bishop Transitions Committee

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 […]

March 11, 2025

Two months since the wildfires

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, […]

March 5, 2025

Pomona ministry brings new dresses to girls, renewed energy to congregation

[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 […]

February 26, 2025

Grand opening of affordable housing at St. Joseph’s, Buena Park, set March 12

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 […]

February 26, 2025

Church of the Advent hosts diocesan Absalom Jones celebration

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 […]