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Week of 28 April 2002

Associations, guilds
The International Order of Saint Vincent: 'A worldwide fellowship of lay ministers associated with liturgy and sanctuary service in the western branches of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. Men, women, boys and girls dedicated to servanthood, discipline, cooperation, education and the preservation of liturgical knowledge, preparation for service, responsibility and reverence. Members follow a rule of life that includes daily prayer, reading of Scripture, and regular participation in and reception of the sacraments'.

Australia
Queensland: Anglican Parish of Burpengary, Deception Bay, Narangba (Brisbane)

Canada
British Columbia: Vancouver, St David (New Westminster)
Newfoundland: St John's, St Augustine (Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador)

England
Blyth Valley Team Ministry (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
Liverpool, Anfield, St Columba (Liverpool)
Shottermill, St Stephen (Guildford)
Wakefield, St John (Wakefield)

Events
July 2002, England
The Meaning of Pilgrimage, Canterbury Cathedral, 20–27 July 2002
Explore pilgrimage from its roots in the journey and arrival of St Augustine at St Martin's Church, Canterbury, to the world of Chaucer and Medieval Pilgrimage in Canterbury Cathedral and the living of Pilgrimage today. For more information, contact: Courses Officer, International Study Centre, The Precincts, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2EH, UK.
Phone: +44 1227 865 276 Email: magalir@canterbury-cathedral.org

Music
The Choir of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, California: You can listen to webcasts of weekly choral services, which at present include an Evensong on Thursday and a Sunday Choral Eucharist. Can't listen live? Grace Cathedral tells us that their services are archived for a week, but we can't find these archives, and their web site is so complex it makes our head spin. If you manage to find their archives, maybe you could tell us, so we can update this listing.

News Centre
The Times profiles a bishop who is not a candidate for Archbishop. Musings about what to do with empty seminaries and theological colleges. National peace conference proposed in Nigeria. Woman candidate withdraws from Kenyan bishop search. ABC speaks out in favour of established church. Action plan released from recent primates' meeting. Bishop of Jerusalem writes another letter that we need to read. Tampa priest leaves ECUSA for AMiA. Various church figures weigh in on women's fashion. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

USA
Maryland: Bethesda, St Dunstan (Washington)
Missouri: Kansas City, Church of the Good Shepherd (West Missouri)
Ohio: Ashtabula, St Peter (Ohio)

Vacancies Centre
Have a post to fill in your parish or diocese that you'd like to advertise internationally? List your vacancy for a month at AO for only US $80 (convert that to your currency here). Browse openings round the Anglican Communion. Check out listings on diocesan web sites throughout the communion. Visit the Vacancies Centre for more information.

Wales
Resources
Evangelical Fellowship in the Church in Wales

World
Cathedrals
Barbados: St Michael's Cathedral, Diocese of the West Indies

Worth Noting
Religion and politics in Zimbabwe: an editorial by the Harare Daily News about the morality of church involvement or non-involvement in national politics.

Theologians must tune in to the spiritual power of great music: Antony Bye writes for The Times (London) about the role of music in worship.

Week of 21 April 2002

Africa
Diocese of Ibadan North (The Church in Nigeria) — ibadannorth.anglican.org: 'Diocese was carved out of Diocese of Ibadan and inaugurated in December 1998. The Diocese recently launched its website and remains the first Diocese in the Church of Nigeria to do so'.

Australia
New South Wales: Bomaderry, St Stephen (Sydney)

England
Great Baddow, St Mary, St Paul, Meadgate Church Centre (Chelmsford)
Hemlington, St Timothy (York)
Ingatestone, St Edmund and St Mary (Chelmsford)
Kelvedon, St Mary the Virgin (Chelmsford)
Leytonstone, St John the Baptist (Chelmsford)
Loughton, St Mary the Virgin (Chelmsford)
Sible Hedingham, St Peter, with Castle Hedingham St Nicholas (Chelmsford)
Southchurch, Christ Church (Chelmsford)
Southminster, St Leonard (Chelmsford)
Stanley, St Peter (Wakefield)
Stokesley Deanery Churches Pictorial directory of the churches in the Deanery of Stokesley. (York)

Resources
Diocesan House of Retreat, Diocese of Chelmsford

Episcopal Elections
Anglican Church of the Central America Region
The Rt Revd Martin Barahona, Bishop of El Salvador, was elected the new Archbishop of the Anglican Church of the Central America Region (IARCA) on Saturday, 13 April in Guatemala City at the Second Synod of the Province. He will follow the Rt Revd Cornelius Wilson, Bishop of Costa Rica, who was the first archbishop of the region. IARCA officially came into being in 1998, after the 1997 ECUSA General Convention vote that permitted the formation of this new province, comprising former dioceses of US Province Nine. IARCA's five members are the Churches of El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama and Costa Rica. Bishop Barahona has been bishop of El Salvador since March 1992 and is the first Salvadoran to be bishop of the Anglican Church of El Salvador. His installation as archbishop will take place at the pro-cathedral of San Juan, in San Salvador, on 24 August 2002.

Episcopal Church in the USA
Diocese of Massachusetts will use not only a traditional walkabout to present candidates for its next bishop suffragan, but a 'webabout' (Not our word! AO editors) as well. More information.

Diocese of Texas: Announces seven nominees for its next bishop coadjutor. More information.

Diocese of Western Louisiana: On the fifth ballot taken on Saturday, 20 April, the Rt Revd D. Bruce McPherson, currently bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Dallas, was elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Western Louisiana. More information.

Exchanges
BOSTON->IRELAND (Summer 2003)
For July and/or August, 2003. Accommodations in Boston include comfortable, 4 bedroom rectory in bucolic suburban setting nine miles Southwest of Boston. Use of automobile included. Minimal parish responsibilities (one Sunday service). Looking for same opportunity in Ireland. Contact S.V. Smith at svs13@juno.com.

Liturgical Resources
Liturgical Customary of the Anglican Society: An American Use, by FFE Blake: The former liturgical customary of the Anglican Society, posted on its webpage for archival purposes.
The Liturgy Planner Online: Complete online version of liturgical planning for every Sunday and Holy Day, children's liturgy, hymn suggestions.

News Centre
Islamic scholar blasts Sharia. Archbishop's envoy reports from Bethlehem. Queen to visit a mosque. Memorial services, obituaries, and reflections on scandal. The Bishop of London and the ordination of women. Television in church. Republican liturgy. AAC announces 'now is the time to pray'. Primates' meeting ends; statements issued. Sudanese bishop accused of being Muslim spy. English traditionalists predict schism over women bishops. Bishops chided for acting like CEOs. On archbishops and beards. Bearded archbishop to visit Uganda. Ugandan bishop asks forgiveness in his retirement speech. English nuns to sell their nunnery. Mothers' Union relaunches. Minnesota church destroyed by fire. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
Schulmerich Bells: A web site listing all the products and services of this company, locate in Pennsylvania, which is a 'manufacturer of handbells, electronic carillons and a provider of cast bells, towers, tower clocks and cupolas'.

USA
California: Fremont, St James (California)
Massachusetts: Orleans, Church of the Holy Spirit (Massachusetts)
Michigan: Williamson, St Katherine (Eastern Michigan)
Mississippi: Biloxi, Church of the Redeemer (Mississippi)
Missouri: Kansas City, St Mary Magdalene, a new 'church plant' (West Missouri)
Pennsylvania: Quakertown, Emmanuel (Pennsylvania)

Vacancies Centre
Have a post to fill in your parish or diocese that you'd like to advertise internationally? List your vacancy for a month at AO for only US $80 (convert that to your currency here). Browse openings round the Anglican Communion. Check out listings on diocesan web sites throughout the communion. Visit the Vacancies Centre for more information.

Worth Noting
In search of heaven on earth: Peter Stanford writes in The Guardian about Stanley Spencer (arguably the greatest explorer of religious ideas and imagery in the 20th century) and his home town of Cookham, where he is buried.

Woman's Worth: Nigel Bunyan reports in The Telegraph on a 17th-century manuscript that lay forgotten for years in a town hall vault, which has provided a new insight into the genesis of the women's movement.