SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Episcopal Church elected its first African-American presiding bishop, choosing Bishop Michael Curry of North Carolina during the denomination’s national assembly Saturday.

Bishop Sean Rowe, 49, called for the church to be resilient heading into what he described as an “existential crisis” caused by a changing world. By Ruth Graham The Episcopal Church elected its ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Episcopal Church plans to elect a new presiding bishop Saturday at the religion’s conference in Salt Lake City. The new national leader will succeed Presiding Bishop ...

In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western ...

Episcopal officials voted Saturday to distance the Diocese of South Carolina from the national church and engage other disaffected orthodox Episcopalians in response to recent church actions affirming ...

Updated May 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM EDT 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 ...

Bishop Sean Rowe, elected June 26 to be the Episcopal Church's next presiding bishop, has decided to be installed in New York in a reduced version of the traditionally elaborate ceremony for the ...