The dean and congregation of Holy Trinity Cathedral in the diocese of Recife (Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil) has cut its relationship with the diocese in a move that was predicated many years ago.
22 October 2002
On Saturday 12 October at a special service during the Diocesan Synod, Bishop Venables was enthroned as the next Diocesan Bishop for the Diocese of Argentina.
18 October 2002
The Revd Paul Matthew Washington, rector of North Philadelphia's Church of the Advocate for 25 years, died Monday of heart failure in Philadelphia at the age of 81.
18 October 2002
The Anglican Library Society has been established out of St Paul's Parish in Riverside, Illinois. The Society supports people in the Anglican Communion charged with running church libraries, websites, and archives.
18 October 2002
Historic Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, caught fire on 9 October and the sanctuary of the 82-year-old structure is a "total loss." Smoke damaged the rest of the building and the cathedral's 3,000-pipe organ, dedicated just last November, sustained "significant damage," according to the Fire Department.
14 October 2002
Faced with a strong "mind of the house" resolution that would have chastised colleagues for "inappropriate behaviour" that threatens the unity of the church, the bishops of the Episcopal Church, meeting in Cleveland, asked the Committee on Pastoral Care to find a better way to deal with the issues.
10 October 2002
"The AIDS pandemic is still in its infancy," warned Stephen Lewis, special envoy for the secretary general of the United Nations in Africa, in a speech at the Cleveland meeting of the House of Bishops on October 1. "And it could spread rapidly to other places on the globe."
10 October 2002
Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk and poet: "If we attempt to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening our own self-understanding, our own freedom, integrity and capacity to love, we will not have anything to give to others. We will communicate nothing but the contagion of our own obsessions, our aggressiveness, our own ego-centered ambitions."
01 October 2002
This September and October the pioneer Spanish portal website www.anglicanos.netsees two celebrations with the weekly seedthought number 100 'sown' and the imminent fourth anniversary of its launch in 1998.
01 October 2002
The Presiding Bishop's statement on the conflict at Church of the Good Shepherd
11 September 2002