Event

Sacred Ground Program Year Launch with Presiding Bishop Rowe

https://episcopalmaine.org/event/sacred-ground-program-year-launch-with-presiding-bishop-rowe/

Episcopalians and all interfaith partners are invited to join a fall program year launch event for Sacred Ground, the church’s 11-part film- and readings-based dialogue series on race, grounded in faith. Join on Zoom for...

Blog Post

Take Action to Support Our Refugee and Immigrant Neighbors

https://episcopalmaine.org/take-action-to-support-our-refugee-and-immigrant-neighbors/

On January 21, 2025, the Trump administration signed a range of executive Borders that will profoundly impact immigration in the U.S. and put the lives of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people at risk. Read...

Resource

The Episcopal Church’s Creation Care Covenant

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/CC-creation_care_covenant_action.pdf

Event

Preaching Excellence Conference for Episcopal Deacons

https://episcopalmaine.org/event/preaching-excellence-conference-for-episcopal-deacons/

March 3-5 On Zoom Registration fee: $30 Deacons serving Province I in the Episcopal Church are invited to an online conference to focus on preaching and the unique voice of the deacon to represent the...

Resource

Holy Eucharist with Reaffirmation of Vows and Consecration of Chrism Worship Bulletin – 8 April 2025

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/holy-eucharist-with-reaffirmation-of-vows-and-consecration-of-chrism-8-april-2025/

Liturgical Remarks Since 2023, we have crafted this liturgy from The Book of Occasional Services 2022 (BOS) in which the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music made considerable changes to “Consecration of Chrism Apart from...

Event

Viewing Party of the Presiding Bishop’s Investiture in Belfast

https://episcopalmaine.org/event/viewing-party-of-the-presiding-bishops-investiture-in-belfast/

On Saturday, November 2, our new Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe will be installed.  This service will be broadcast from the Chapel of Christ the Lord in The Episcopal Church Center in NYC so that people...

Blog Post

Trinity Providing Housing to Asylum Seekers

https://episcopalmaine.org/trinity-providing-housing-to-asylum-seekers/

Trinity Church in Portland has begun hosting three families of asylum seekers. They will be sleeping and living at Trinity for two weeks in conjunction with the organization Family Promise. It is a joy that...

Blog Post

Election of the Presiding Bishop in 2024

https://episcopalmaine.org/election-of-the-presiding-bishop-in-2024/

The JNCPB is composed of 20 people. Five bishops were elected by the House of Bishops, and five clergy and five lay people were elected by the House of Deputies (Canon I.2.1.a). Two members between ages 16-21 were appointed by the president of the House of Deputies (Canon I.2.1.a). Three members were jointly appointed by the presiding bishop and House of Deputies president to ensure the cultural and geographic diversity of the church and skillsets needed for effective service on the committee (Canon I.2.1.c). The members serve a three-year term that concludes with the close of 81st General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Celebrating the Anniversary of the Ordination of Women – July 2024

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/celebrating-the-anniversary-of-the-ordination-of-women/

Read a message from Bishop Brown here. Monday, July 29—the feast of St. Mary and St. Martha—was the actual date on which three retired Episcopal bishops ordained 11 women priests at the Church of the...

Resource

LGBTQIA+ Resources from the Maine Council of Churches

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/lgbtq-resources-mcc/

  The Maine Council of Churches (MCC) held open town halls, “Here We Are. Send Us!” on during the first quarter of 2025 to discuss ways Maine’s communities of faith can be prepared to respond...