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...My husband and I were married in our church by our bishop. Many of my colleagues in the immediate vicinity are also gay....
...The General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church refused to admit him on racial grounds. But Crummell was educated by sympathetic clergymen in Boston and Providence....
...Charles Kitima, secretary-general of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference, a grouping of Catholic bishops, said the clergy accepted that the threat of Covid-19 was real....
...Napoleon saw religion as socially useful and the Catholic church as a stabilising force that had to be brought under the control of the French state while Pius VII, who as bishop had insisted that Catholicism...
...Charles Kitima, secretary-general of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference, a grouping of Catholic bishops, said priests had been holding daily funeral masses in recent weeks — a sharp increase on normal levels...
...The president had brandished a bible at St John’s Episcopal Church across from the White House, after tear gas had been used to clear his way of protesters against the police killing of George Floyd....
...Eager to proclaim that a more diverse future was here, people celebrated the presence of a black choir, and applauded the sermon delivered by Bishop Michael Bruce Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal...
...On Twitter, Most Rev Welby retweeted comments by Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the American Episcopal Church, condemning Mr Trump’s use of the church....
...Kelly Brown Douglas, an African-American Episcopal priest who co-wrote Bishop Harris’s memoir, recalls how the consecration revealed the charisma of Bishop Harris, who was only around 5ft tall....
...Mr Trump then strode across the cleared area to St John’s Episcopal church, where he posed for pictures holding a Bible, which he did not open....
...“He has been deemed by many as a kingmaker,” Mitch Colvin, the Democratic mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina, told congregants at Simon Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church....
...The National Episcopal Conference of Congo, known as CENCO, did not say whom it believed had won the election....
...The Vatican said on Wednesday that it would hold a meeting of the presidents of the Episcopal Conferences of the church in February to discuss “the theme of the protection of minors”....
...Bishop Michael Curry, head of the Episcopal Church in the US, says: “The church is being called to be a community of people who live out and reflect and are witness to the teachings and values and way of...
...The pictures of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King in Bishop Jethro James’ church office speak to a commitment to the causes of black Americans....
...The king created a cathedral from the monastery, and within this episcopal seat the body of Mary Queen of Scots was lowered on August 5 1587, before James I spirited her away to Westminster Abbey 25 years...
...Long before the Church stuck its oar/episcopal barrier in I believed in the adage: Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum (et ad inferos) “for whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven (and down...
...A bishop takes a photo of Pope Francis during the opening session of the CEI, Italian Episcopal Conference, at the Vatican on Monday...
...The civil unions bill was opposed by right-wing opposition parties in conjunction with Roman Catholic bishops, who have a strong influence on national politics....
...My black-silk top hat, bought via Lock’s from a deceased bishop, has an episcopal black rosette pinned to its front which made people wonder if I’d won a prize at a country fair or local dog show....
...“Someone should have told the young man: he wanted to start a race war but he came to the wrong place,” said Reverend John Richard Bryant, senior bishop of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal....
...The Bishop of Stepney came too. The sound engineer said it was the first time he’d witnessed an episcopal blessing before a recording. I was alone at my desk when I first heard the recording....
...At one end of the spectrum, the episcopal church in America has consecrated an openly lesbian bishop. At the other, African bishops have supported harsh anti–gay laws....
...The decision was revealed only two days after a meeting between Pope Francis and the episcopal conference of the Swiss Bishops....
...The Vatican said on Wednesday that Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, Bishop of Limburg, was “at this moment not in a position to carry out his episcopal ministry”....
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