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The 1970 division of the Alabama diocese, for most of its history a statewide body, was necessitated because of strong membership growth (both in existing and then-new parishes) in metropolitan areas like Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, and Huntsville going back to about 1945, after the end of World War II. Unlike most other Episcopal dioceses ...
Glenda S. Curry (born June 20, 1953) is the twelfth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.In an earlier career as a nurse and college administrator she was president of Troy State University at Montgomery from 1991 to 1999 where she helped created the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.
The Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mobile. The Cathedral of Saint Paul, in Birmingham, Alabama serves as the Episcopal see of the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama. EWTN, a major Catholic media enterprise, is located in the diocese.
On July 13, 2007, a letter from Carpenter's son, the Rev. Douglas Carpenter, was published by the Episcopal Life Online Newslink emphasizing his father's stance on the issue of desegregation: "My father, C.C.J. Carpenter, was a bishop of the Alabama Diocese from 1938, when I was just turned 5, until 1968. In 1951, a parish in Mobile wanted to ...
From 2011 to 2020, St. Andrew's experienced three priests who left the church abruptly through various unfortunate circumstances, including Ed Hunt, Michael Rich, [4] and Tommie Lee Watkins, Jr., [5] who was the first openly gay African American ordained in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and the first African American to serve as rector of St ...
Sloan has participated in many mission trips to Honduras. Within the diocese, Sloan has previously served as director of Special Session, housed at the diocese's Camp McDowell, after founding the program in the Diocese of Alabama. [3] Kee Sloan is the author of two semi-autobiographical books, Jabbok [4] and its sequel Beulah. [5]
On February 12, 2010, during his address at the 179th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, Parsley announced his plan to retire as diocesan bishop. John McKee Sloan, eleventh Bishop of Alabama, who was elected as Bishop Suffragan of Alabama in the summer of 2007 and consecrated in 2008, was installed as the current diocesan ...
Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church in Clayton, Alabama, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 1995. [1] This church had its origins in a mission station established by the Reverend J. L. Gay in 1844. On May 10, 1872, the mission was formally accepted in the Diocese of Alabama as Grace ...