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“FOBs —Friends of Bob” Williams gathered from east to west, and from near and far for a “40 Love” Feb. 10, 2026, online service of Evening Prayer, celebrating the canon for common life’s “rare gift of being able to serve this diocese and The Episcopal Church” for 40 years. “Today is the actual anniversary of […]
The Rev. Bryan Jones, a longtime priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, died Feb. 3, while hospitalized following a series of illnesses. He was 72 and retired. Survivors include his wife, the Rev. Amy Pringle, and his children — Derek (Jessi), Sean, Jenni and Kate O’Reilly-Jones — and three grandchildren, Willa, Genevieve, and Corbin. […]
Under a clergy and student exchange program launched last year between the companion dioceses of Taiwan and Los Angeles, the Rev. Joseph Jui-en Ho, priest of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Keelung City, Taiwan, is now assisting for three months at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Monterey Park, one of the Diocese of L.A.’s three Chinese […]
The Episcopal Church Center in New York today announced its receipt of the required majority of denomination-wide consents to the Nov. 8, 2025, election of the Rev. Dr. Antonio J. Gallardo L. as bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles. The announcement from The Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs reads in full: “The standing […]
El día de hoy el Episcopal Church Center en Nueva York anunció haber recibido la mayoría de los consentimientos requeridos por parte de toda la denominación a la elección realizada el 8 de noviembre del 2025 del Rvdo. Dr. Antonio J. Gallardo L. como obispo de la Diócesis de Los Ángeles. El anuncio hecho por […]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while responding to the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, prophetically linked the civil rights struggle for equality with segregation’s legacy of racism, poverty, and unsafe and unhealthy communities, said the Rev. Melanie Mullen, guest preacher at “Advocating for Environmental Justice,” the Jan. 18 annual diocesan commemoration of the slain civil […]
“It’s very important to me to express my gratitude for the remarkable opportunity to be of service through these decades,” Bob Williams, diocesan canon for common life, said of an upcoming Feb. 10 Zoom Evening Prayer liturgy set to mark, to the day, his 40th anniversary of joining the staff of the Episcopal Diocese of […]
Some 250 voices from around the Los Angeles diocese joined the poignant strains of violin, cello and organ, Sunday, Jan. 11 at All Saints Church in Pasadena, in the ancient Anglican prayer practice of Evensong, singing of sorrow, faith, resilience, renewed commitment and remembrance, one year after “once-in-a-century” wildfires destroyed area lives, homes, schools and […]
One year after devastating fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, a group of talented and generous artists from the area came together Jan. 7 with St. Matthew’s Church and School for afternoon and evening Community Prayer Services and Concerts of Remembrance, Healing and Renewal. Each event opened with a prayer gathering led by the clergy […]
Bishop John Harvey Taylor marked the one-year anniversary of the 2025 devastating Los Angeles area wildfires with prayer and visits to the communities most impacted, he reported to Diocesan Council at its Jan. 8 meeting via Zoom. Taylor began Council’s first 2026 meeting with prayers for “all that the victims lost, the death of a […]
A moment of silence for those killed by ICE — immigrants and Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three, poet and singer — followed the music of protest folk singer Jesse Welles as the Jan. 13 online meeting of the Sacred Resistance Ministry of the Diocese of Los Angeles got underway: “If you’re looking […]
Retired Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan Chester Lovelle Talton was remembered with gratitude, tears, laughter and applause as a devoted father, husband and grandfather, a gentle giant, a gifted leader, teacher, pastor and ardent prophet for justice and reconciliation, “the finest of bishops,” as hundreds gathered at a Dec. 27, 2025, memorial service at St. John’s […]
