More than 35 bishops from around the United States, England, Tanzania and Ghana joined in the iconic laying on of hands as the Rt. Rev’d E. Mark Stevenson was ordained and consecrated the 14th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.
As war ravages Ukraine, the act of painting eggs this year has taken on new meaning and a greater purpose for Stephanie and other parishioners at Holy Cross.
Bishop-Elect E. Mark Stevenson has announced his intention to call the Reverend Deacon d’Rue Hazel to be Canon to the Ordinary following his consecration as Bishop in December.
The Rt. Rev. Susan Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority, announced today that the Rt. Rev. Jennifer Brooke-Davidson has accepted a call to serve as Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina.
The Diocesan Standing Committee and the Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority, announce with joyful thanksgiving that Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has notified the Diocese of Virginia that the Rev. Canon E. Mark Stevenson has received the required majority of consents from the House of Bishops and the Standing Committees of the dioceses of The Episcopal Church.
The Rt. Reverend Bishop Peter James Lee, 12th Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia, passed away in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on July 2, 2022. He was 84. Bishop Lee served for 25 years as Bishop of Virginia, from 1984 to 2009.
Holy God God of Peace God of Justice Giver of Life, We mourn, we lament, we rage as the scourge of gun violence in our land continues unabated, as the uniquely American plague of gun violence slaughters our siblings, our parents, our children.
More than 450 lay and clerical delegates gathered June 4 at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Va. for a special convention to elect the 14th Bishop Diocesan of the Diocese of Virginia.
The following is a letter from the Standing Committee in advance of Saturday’s Special Convention to elect the 14th Bishop Diocesan.
As Christians, we put our whole trust in someone who bore the brunt of the worst that we can dish out, as individuals or as a “system”, and who rose victorious from that greatest of all betrayals, betrayal unto death.
