Category: Diocesan News and Information

An Invitation to Shabbat From Our Jewish Neighbors

All are warmly invited to a Shabbat service, reception, & conversation to connect with some of our Jewish neighbors in Pittsburgh. Congregation Beth Shalom 5915… Read More

Save the Date: Lenten Learning Day 2019

Mark your calendar for Lenten Learning Day 2019, Saturday, March 23, at St. Brendan’s Episcopal Church in Franklin Park.  This will be a special day… Read More

Love+Teach+Heal Academy Launches This Month

I am pleased to announce that the Love+Teach+Heal Leadership Academy is ready to launch and will meet beginning the second week of January! As you… Read More

The God-Bearer: A Christmas Reflection from Bishop McConnell

Christmas, 2018 Beloved in Christ, It is hard to see them the way they were: mother, husband, child, exhausted, sheltered in the nick of time,… Read More

Important IRS Updates for Parishes and Clergy

1.  “Parking Lot Tax” – You may have heard about the IRS issuing guidance this week regarding the “Parking Lot Tax” which was part of the… Read More

Advent: Memory and Hope

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 2 Corinthians 5:17  … Read More

Court Approves Property Agreement

A final legal requirement has been met for an agreement between the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh and nine congregations that chose to leave the Episcopal… Read More

Diocesan Transitions, November 2018

The Rev. Charles Hamill and his wife, Bethany, celebrated the birth of their first child, Owen Gregory, on March 16, 2018. Effective May 30, 2018, the… Read More

Ordination to the Priesthood

Ordinations to the Diaconate