Christ Church Clermont-Ferrand, France, is pleased to announce the appointment of The Reverend Kirby M. Smith as its new Priest-in-Charge. He currently serves as interim Priest-in-Charge at St David’s Episcopal Church and Pre-School in San Diego, California, United States. He will serve Christ Church in a part-time capacity.
During a festive joint service of the Old Catholic and Anglican congregations in Karlsruhe, the Statutes of the newly founded St. Columban’s Episcopal Church Karlsruhe e.V. were formally signed.
The Convocation joins the wider Christian world in mourning the passing of His Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia. His long and faithful leadership of the Georgian Orthodox Church, his defense of the church during the years of Soviet domination and his determination to revive the church in a free Georgia, are an inspiration.
Better alignment of its capital with its Christian mission is the long-term goal and guiding vision of an ongoing social-impact investment policy by the American Cathedral in Paris Foundation.
Lent is upon us. Despite its reputation, it is our great season of opportunity—of spiritual opportunity. It is the one chance we get, barely ten percent of each year we are given in this life, to intentionally address the health of our relationship with God—and with God’s hope for how we will live the life that has been given to us.
The first fruits of the Augsburg Agreement – full communion between The Episcopal Church (TEC) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (ELKB) – emerged recently in Augsburg and Munich as Episcopal and Lutheran ministers celebrated communion in one another’s churches.