The Episcopal Church is investing a new presiding bishop on Saturday morning November 2, Church Beyond the Walls (CBW) is conducting its usual ministry with some of Providence’s most vulnerable residents that same afternoon, and the Diocese of Rhode Island is inviting everyone to watch a live stream of the first, and show up in […] The post A watch party doubleheader to honor the PB-elect appeared first on Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island ..read more

In his address to the 232nd Diocesan Convention last October, Bishop Knisely challenged the diocese to invest in ministries for young adults that form a “pipeline” of ministry. At Rhode Island College, the University of Rhode Island, and Providence colleges including Brown University, congregations and clergy are answering that call.  Both the Rev. Savannah Ponder, […] The post Feeding Body and Soul on Campus appeared first on Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island ..read more

EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM)…are you being called? My name is Jacki Zahn, and I am a parishioner at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Greenville.  I wanted to give you a little information on Education for Ministry (EfM). I love learning new things, especially History. Because I never got the chance to go to college after […] The post EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM)…are you being called? appeared first on Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island ..read more

When a supply priest isn’t available to celebrate the Eucharist with the English-speaking part of Ascension Cranston’s congregation, the parish uses the liturgy of the word. But Jean Field, a licensed preacher and member of the congregation, wondered what might “feed the hunger” that she perceived on Sundays without Eucharist.   Bishop Knisley, who was formerly […] The post Face -to-Face with our Faith: Ascension, Cranston hosts an Agape Meal  appeared first on Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island ..read more

To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the ordination of women to the Episcopal priesthood, the Diocese of Rhode Island has undertaken an oral history project that features interviews with five history-making women who have deep connections to the diocese. The women interviewed were: The Rev. Jo-Ann Drake, the first woman from the diocese to be […] The post Women’s Oral History Project appeared first on Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island ..read more

The elections of the Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe as the next presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, and the reelection of Julia Ayala Harris were perhaps the biggest news events emerging from the 81st General Convention, which ended on June 30 in Louisville, but Bishop Nicholas Knisely and the diocese’s deputies say that only begins to cover the good news coming from the convention. For Deputy Olive Swinski, the highlight of convention was being able to participate in the Under 40 Caucus, a group of dozens of young deputies that emerged both as a political force and a supportive community. “At times ..read more

The Philadelphia Eleven Screening Click here to register  July 29 will be the 50th Anniversary of the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood in the Episcopal Church! We will remember and honor the first of those women with a screening of a documentary, “The Philadelphia 11“, on the evening of Friday, July 19, 6:00pm at St. Paul’s Church Parish Hall in Wickford. There will be an introduction and words from The Rt. Rev. Nicholas Knisely, The Rev. Canon Dr. Dena Cleaver-Bartholomew, The Venerable Grace Swinski, Archdeacon and Ms. Linda Guest, Chair of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Episcopa ..read more

A video message from Bishop Knisely as General Convention draws to a close.   The post Final Day of General Convention 81 appeared first on Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island ..read more

The Rt. Rev. Sean W. Rowe of the Episcopal Dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York was elected the 28th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church on the first ballot today at the church’s 81st General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. Rowe, 49, received 89 0f 158 votes from the House of Bishops which gathered for the election in Christ Church Cathedral. His election was later confirmed by the House of Deputies in a vote of 778-43 Rowe’s nine-year term, succeeding Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry, begins November 1. “I am excited by where the work of discernment has led us ..read more

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