The Episcopal Church reckons ... — Of the more than 300 pages of bylaws detailing the governance of the Episcopal Church, ... As the Standing Commission continues to hash out what form of ...

LGBTQ Issues. The Episcopal Church first adopted a pro-homosexual declaration in 1976, then consecrated a lesbian priest in 1977, and elevated the first gay priest in 1989.In 2009, it barred ...

Influential voices in the Church have interpreted Pope Francis’ reformed apostolic constitution to support lay governance at the highest levels of the Church, and some prelates and canonists ...

The Episcopal Church will establish a fact-finding commission to research its role in the federal Indian boarding school system that separated generations of Indigenous children from their ...

The Episcopal Church’s migration service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status, citing the church’s longstanding ...

The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee, an Episcopal prelate who sought a centrist path through the controversies that have divided his church in recent years, supporting the consecration of the first ...

In a letter sent to church members on Monday, Rev. Sean W. Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, said the church will not be used as a political tool for the administration.“Since ...

The Episcopal Church is ending its nearly 40-year refugee resettlement partnership with the U.S. government after refusing a Trump administration request to help resettle white Afrikaners from ...