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February 18, 2026

Council welcomes reports of year-end diocesan revenue ahead of budget, updates on planning for consecration of bishop-elect

Planning updates for the July 11, 2026, consecration of the Rev. Dr. Antonio José Gallardo Lucena as the eighth bishop of Los Angeles highlighted Diocesan Council’s Feb. 12 online meeting, along with overall diocesan financial reports reflecting year-end revenue ahead of budget. The consecration at All Saints Church in Pasadena will be livestreamed, and watch […]

February 11, 2026

Committee named to coordinate July 11 Pasadena rites for consecration of Antonio José Gallardo Lucena as diocese’s eighth bishop

A committee to facilitate the July 11 consecration of the Rev. Dr. Antonio José Gallardo Lucena as eighth bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles has been named by the diocesan Standing Committee, its president, the Rev. Dr. Kate Cress, has announced. In preparation for the upcoming 10 a.m. rites set for All Saints Church in […]

February 11, 2026

Friends join Canon Bob Williams in marking 40 years of diocesan service

 “FOBs —Friends of Bob” Williams gathered from east to west, and from near and far for a “40 Love” Feb. 10, 2026, online service of Evening Prayer, celebrating the canon for common life’s “rare gift of being able to serve this diocese and The Episcopal Church” for 40 years. “Today is the actual anniversary of […]

February 4, 2026

The Rev. Bryan Jones dies at 72; Feb. 16 celebration of life set for St. Luke’s, La Crescenta

The Rev. Bryan Jones, a longtime priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, died Feb. 3, while hospitalized following a series of illnesses. He was 72 and retired. Survivors include his wife, the Rev. Amy Pringle, and his children — Derek (Jessi), Sean, Jenni and Kate O’Reilly-Jones — and three grandchildren, Willa, Genevieve, and Corbin. […]

February 4, 2026

Q&A: Meet Taiwan priest Joseph Ho, now serving at St. Gabriel’s, Monterey Park

Under a clergy and student exchange program launched last year between the companion dioceses of Taiwan and Los Angeles, the Rev. Joseph Jui-en Ho, priest of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Keelung City, Taiwan, is now assisting for three months at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Monterey Park, one of the Diocese of L.A.’s three Chinese […]

January 24, 2026

Consents received to election of the Rev. Dr. Antonio J. Gallardo L. as bishop of L.A. diocese

The Episcopal Church Center in New York today announced its receipt of the required majority of denomination-wide consents to the Nov. 8, 2025, election of the Rev. Dr. Antonio J. Gallardo L. as bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles. The announcement from The Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs reads in full: “The standing […]

January 24, 2026

Consentimientos recibidos por la elección del Rvdo. Dr. Antonio J. Gallardo L. como obispo de la Diócesis de L.A.

El día de hoy el Episcopal Church Center en Nueva York anunció haber recibido la mayoría de los consentimientos requeridos por parte de toda la denominación a la elección realizada el 8 de noviembre del 2025 del Rvdo. Dr. Antonio J. Gallardo L. como obispo de la Diócesis de Los Ángeles. El anuncio hecho por […]

January 21, 2026

Diocesan MLK gathering underscores ‘Advocating for Environmental Justice’

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while responding to the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, prophetically linked the civil rights struggle for equality with segregation’s legacy of racism, poverty, and unsafe and unhealthy communities, said the Rev. Melanie Mullen, guest preacher at “Advocating for Environmental Justice,” the Jan. 18 annual diocesan commemoration of the slain civil […]

January 20, 2026

All invited to Feb. 10 Zoom Evening Prayer marking Bob Williams’s 40th year of service in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles

“It’s very important to me to express my gratitude for the remarkable opportunity to be of service through these decades,” Bob Williams, diocesan canon for common life, said of an upcoming Feb. 10 Zoom Evening Prayer liturgy set to mark, to the day, his 40th anniversary of joining the staff of the Episcopal Diocese of […]

January 14, 2026

Climate Evensong affirms resilience, remembrance, resolve one year after Eaton, Palisades wildfires

Some 250 voices from around the Los Angeles diocese joined the poignant strains of violin, cello and organ, Sunday, Jan. 11 at All Saints Church in Pasadena, in the ancient Anglican prayer practice of Evensong, singing of sorrow, faith, resilience, renewed commitment and remembrance, one year after “once-in-a-century” wildfires destroyed area lives, homes, schools and […]

January 14, 2026

One year after wildfires, Palisades parish hosts concerts of remembrance, healing

One year after devastating fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, a group of talented and generous artists from the area came together Jan. 7 with St. Matthew’s Church and School for afternoon and evening Community Prayer Services and Concerts of Remembrance, Healing and Renewal. Each event opened with a prayer gathering led by the clergy […]

January 14, 2026

Diocesan Council hears wildfire recovery reports, on-budget financial updates  

Bishop John Harvey Taylor marked the one-year anniversary of the 2025 devastating Los Angeles area wildfires with prayer and visits to the communities most impacted, he reported to Diocesan Council at its Jan. 8 meeting via Zoom. Taylor began Council’s first 2026 meeting with prayers for “all that the victims lost, the death of a […]