Fall Begins With A Busy Weekend
Over 150 people attended various Diocesan events as the fall program year began this weekend. Mary Parmer presented the Invite Welcome Connect process and resources to a group of 50 clergy on Friday and a group of 60 lay people and clergy on Saturday. Invite Welcome Connect provides hands on, concrete ideas for evangelism and…
Update from Our Little Roses
Lois Carter, of the Our Little Roses committee, provides the following update: Our summer visit to Our Little Roses Home for Girls in Honduras was as always a fun filled time. The girls, including new arrivals of four sisters, continue to thrive and are excited for the start of the new school year. The third…
Presiding Bishop Curry offers video message on voting as “a Christian obligation”
“Voting and participation in our government is a way of participating in our common life,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry said in a video election message. “And that is a Christian obligation. Indeed, we who follow in the Way of Jesus of Nazareth are summoned to participate actively as reflections of our faith…
Jim Eaton Summer Reading Program Now Underway!
The Jim Eaton Summer Reading Program has begun its second year with a new age range and new location. Taking the valuable lessons from last year, the Eaton Summer Reading Program made some changes for 2016, including a new location in the city of Buffalo (The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, located in north…
Statement of Bishop William Franklin on Recent Violent Acts
Once again our hearts break. Two more African-American men have been killed by police officers. And now five officers in Dallas have been struck down as they attempted to keep the peace during a rally protesting police violence and honoring those dead black men. Several other people who were part of the peace rally have been…
Parishes Unite to Assist Refugees
Approximately 30 youth and adult volunteers from St. Peter’s, Episcopal church in Eggertsville, and neighboring St. Benedict’s Roman Catholic church, collaborated on Saturday, June 11 to prepare a West Side apartment for a Somalian family’s arrival to the Buffalo area. The outreach project, under the auspices of Journey’s End Refugee Services, has been in planning…
Statement from Bishop Franklin on Orlando
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Once again our hearts are broken as we heard of the mass shootings in Orlando. This violence appears to be both a hate crime and an act of terror. We pray for those who have died, we pray for those who are injured and traumatized, for their families, for…
Parishes Celebrated Feast of Corpus Christi
The feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for The Body of Christ) is observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. It is a commemoration of and thanksgiving for the Eucharist. It was first observed in Rome in the thirteenth century and spread through the church in Europe through the fourteenth century. St. Thomas Aquinas composed a service…
Go into the Neighborhood and Change the World!
Episcopalians from Western New York, Rochester, Erie, Ohio, Virginia and Massachusetts gathered at St. Paul’s Cathedral this past weekend. They gathered to learn about partnerships between churches and public schools. The gathering was co-sponsored by the All Our Children Network and the Diocese of Western New York in response to General Convention resolution B005 that…
Two Bishops Receive Award
The New York State Council of Churches recently awarded the first Excellence in Ecumenism award to Bishop R. William Franklin of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York and Bishop Richard J. Malone of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. The Ven. William Parnell, President of the Council said, “In a time when Christian denominations…
St. Philip’s Hosts Conference on Solitary Confinement
On Saturday, April 30, 2016, the Buffalo/WNY Chapter of the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (NYCAIC), held a conference on solitary confinement in the prisons and jails of New York at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church. Steve Hart of St. John’s-Grace heads up the group of advocates in support of the reduction and ultimate…
Welcome to the new Diocese of Western New York website!
The website is designed with three purposes in mind: To help lay leaders, clergy and others to find the information and resources they need. To help visitors and seekers find our congregations. To help connect our congregations to each other and to share our stories with each other. Please explore the site. Look for your…
Recent News
Information on Ramon Aymerich
The Buffalo News reported this morning that the Diocese of Buffalo has added the name of an Episcopal priest with ties to the Diocese of Western New York to its …Read More »
Experimenting with Prayer Ministry at St. David’s, West Seneca
Bishop Sean is often heard to say that Episcopalians need to experiment for the sake of the gospel. Last month, St. David’s in West Seneca did just that when its …Read More »Pre-Convention Meetings in October
Members of both the Dioceses of Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania are invited to attend one of four joint pre-convention gatherings: October 3 at 7 p.m. at St. James, …Read More »