Following Jesus in Province II

The International Atlantic Province

August 2022

News from the Province

Save the Date! Be sure to mark Wednesday, October 26, 2022 in your calendar. Province II will present a Zoom information session, Say Hi to Province II. Each of the Province II dioceses will highlight their mission, ministry, and message. The session begins at 9 am Eastern. More info to come, but we wanted you to mark this day in advance!

News from our thirteen dioceses

The Diocese of Albany

Morning Prayer on Facebook, Monday-Friday | 8:30AM - Did you know that the SOUTHERN ADIRONDACK DEANERY offers Morning Prayer on Facebook? Clergy and laity take turns leading the Daily Office to provide another venue for us all to draw near to Jesus; to pray the Psalms, Collects and beautiful Canticles; and receive the words of Holy Scripture so that we might “read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life…” (BCP, p.236). Please join us any morning and receive the blessings that come with corporate worship – even when it’s electronic! Subscribe to our page and get notified when we go live! Questions? Ask Dean Nancy Goff - nlgoff@verizon.net

The Diocese of Central New York

"Unity Across Difference" a the 15th Lambeth Conference - Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe was among more than 650 bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion who traveled to Canterbury for the 15th Lambeth Conference, which began July 26th. Read more >

The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe

Bishop Edington's last letter from Lambeth - The bags are unpacked. The truly heroic weight of printed material is put away. (Okay, well, not all of it, yet. There was a lot of paper.) I am already having to think about the logistics for the next journey.

But before all that, I’m taking stock of how much my imagination has been challenged by the days just past. Read on >

La Iglesia Episcopal en Cuba

A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters missing. Cuban authorities said a unidentified body had been found late Saturday.

Read the news story >

Read the letter from Bishop Griselda >

l'Église Épiscopale d'Haïti

United Nations humanitarian agencies have started delivering aid directly to people in Haiti following a recent spike in violence between rival gangs which has fueled a worsening crisis across the capital, Port-au-Prince. Read more >

Diocese of Long Island

Bishop Provenzano reflects on the Lambeth Conference – August 9, 2022

At the close of The Lambeth Conference, Bishop Provenzano gives one final reflection about his experience and how the conference will intertwine with the work of the Diocese of Long Island in the future.

Watch the video >

The Diocese of Newark

Bishop Hughes posted reflections and photos from the 15th Lambeth Conference on her Facebook page. They were collected here in chronological order. The photo gallery includes her own photos plus additional photos posted by her husband David Smedley, and others, in which Bishop Hughes was tagged. See what she posted >

The Diocese of New Jersey

August 12 - If God is Love

...The 2022 Lambeth Conference is now over. Like all of you, I followed it from a distance.[4] The bishops who gathered in Lambeth addressed a wide range of concerns from Evangelism, to Human Dignity, to Climate Change. If you want to know more, check out the Lambeth Conference 2022 website here.

To my mind, the greatest witness of the bishops attending Lambeth was that they were, by and large, not horrible to one another. This was not a given. There were real differences going into the conference, particularly over matters of human sexuality.[5] Those differences were not resolved by the Lambeth Conference and remain profound.[6] Read Bishop Chip's whole reflection >

The Diocese of New York

Trinity Church Wall Street is announcing a new collaboration with Jazz House Kids, a preeminent arts education and performance organization in Montclair, NJ, now in its 20th year and founded by jazz vocalist Melissa Walker. Eight-time GRAMMY winner Christian McBride serves as artistic director. This fall, Trinity will host inspiring, professional jazz education for children from all backgrounds in its new signature program JAZZHOUSE @ Trinity. Read more >

Iglesia Episcopal Diócesis de Puerto Rico

A una semana de haber comenzado la Conferencia de Lambeth, el Rvdmo. Rafael L. Morales Maldonado, nos comenta que la Conferencia ha tomado forma; que todos se han adaptado y han entrado a la dinámica de fraternidad. Se vive un espíritu de respeto, adoración, unidad, confraternización y espiritualidad.

Basándose en la metodología de la conferencia que es; caminar, escuchar y testificar juntos, se ha logrado una apertura para permitir escuchar la voz de todos los Obispos que han viajado desde todas partes del mundo. El ideal no es imponer, sino escuchar, descubrir algún tipo de aprendizaje a través de lo compartido y entender, sobre todo, que Dios está actuando a través de todas las cosas que se están haciendo.

The Diocese of Rochester

At St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Brockport NY

Diocese of the Virgin Islands

Visiting clergy bring hope, healing to Episcopalians in Virgin Islands churches

For nearly half of Trevor Bridgewater’s life, St. Mary’s Church in Virgin Gorda, in the Episcopal Diocese of the Virgin Islands, had been without a priest. Then the Rev. Ellis Clifton arrived last November, as part of an initiative of The Episcopal Church’s Office of African Descent Ministries programs, and “Father Fireball” as he is affectionately known, has inspired visions of planting new congregations, and serving as a community hub. Attendance has tripled, and the church has added a second Sunday morning service, said Bridgewater, 30, the senior warden. Read the ENS Story >

The Episcopal Dioceses of Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania

From Bishop Sean: the Lambeth Conference concludes - Earlier today in Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference of bishops from across the Anglican Communion drew to a close. The Archbishop of Canterbury gave his closing address this morning, and in the late afternoon, bishops participated in a closing worship service at Canterbury Cathedral. Tomorrow I will fly, God and the airlines willing, from London to Buffalo.

This has been my second Lambeth Conference. My first one, in 2008, took place less than a year after I became the bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania. The context for this meeting has been dramatically different, as the Episcopal Church and several other provinces of the communion now practice marriage equality and strive for the full inclusion of LGBTQ people. Continue reading >