Bishop Search/Transition Update #17
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The Search/Nomination Committee and the Transition Committee are providing updates on the Search Process through these regular emails.
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CONSECRATION WEEKEND
This coming weekend, from the Celebration of Ministry on Friday, April 5, through to the Reception after the Ordination and Consecration service on Saturday, April 6, is a celebration of our mutual ministry in Europe: past, present, and future.
We hope you are joining us, but even if you cannot come, there will be an opportunity to watch Saturday’s Consecration service via a video livestream.
The Service will be webcast live on YouTube and an Order of Service for the Ordination and Consecration is available. See the
Consecration Page
on our website for further information.
- Order of Service for the Ordination and Consecration click here
- The Service will be webcast live on YouTube click here
Here's the updated, full timetable for the Consecration weekend:
THURSDAY, APRIL 4:
The meetings of each of the three
Board of Foreign Parishes
will be held at The American Cathedral in Paris on the following schedule:
- 1:30 p.m. Board of St. James Church, Florence
- 3:00 p.m. Board of St. Paul’s Church, Rome
- 4:30 p.m. Board of Foreign Parishes
- Reception follows at 6:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 5
- 8:00 a.m. Council of Advice meets, Bert’s, 4 ave. President Wilson
- 10:15 a.m. Press briefing, Presiding Bishop and Bishop-elect, Martyrs’ Chapel
- 11:00 a.m. Presiding Bishop meets with Convocation clergy, chancel
- Convocation clergy spouses and partners meet with the Bishop’s spouse, Hélène Whalon, and the Bishop-elect’s spouse, Judith Edington, lower-level Garden Classrooms
- 12:15 p.m. Presiding Bishop blesses the Cathedral’s Mission Lunch, parish hall
- 12:30 p.m. Lunch for Presiding Bishop, Convocation clergy and spouses, Maison Aubrac, 37 rue Marbeuf
- 1:30 – 6:00 p.m. Commission on Ministry of the Baptized (COMB) meets, crypt
- 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Consecration rehearsal, Cathedral nave
- 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Welcome and farewell celebration for Bishop-elect and Bishop, Cathedral nave
SATURDAY, APRIL 6
- 8:30 – 10:15 a.m. Bishops’ breakfast, signing, meeting with Presiding Bishop and vesting, Cathedral Leo Room and library, 2nd floor, and office, 3rd floor
- 8:30 a.m. Bishop spouses’ breakfast, deanery
- 9:30 a.m. Visiting, Ecumenical, and Convocation clergy vest in the lower-level Garden Classrooms. (Vesture for clergy who plan to process: Cassock, surplice and red stole; alb and red stole is also acceptable; or vesture traditional in your tradition)
- 10:15-10:45 a.m. Convocation clergy having vested in the lower-level Garden Classrooms, meet with Bishop-elect in the Crypt, on same level
- 10:30 a.m. Gathering celebration and music
- 11:00 a.m. Ordination and consecration service
- 1:45 p.m. Stand-up reception lunch, Cathedral nave*
SUNDAY, APRIL 7
- 11:00 a.m. Presiding Bishop celebrates and preaches at the Cathedral.
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GIFTS FOR OUR NEW BISHOP IN CHARGE
Thank you so much to all individuals and parishes that have donated towards the vestments etc. for our new bishop. Our target was €7,000 – we have topped €11,000!
We will use the extra money both to fund some additional vestments to complete the set, and to purchase carbon offsets for the many flights across the Atlantic to the Consecration.
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WHALON FUND FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS
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OUR THANK YOU GIFT
:
The Whalon Fund for the Creative Arts
This is “a gift that carries on giving,” and one that you can carry on giving to. Our present in Pierre’s honor will help us fund creative, arts-based evangelism for years to come. Here is a link to a short video with just some of the creative art projects that Convocation parishes and missions have initiated in the past.
Just think how much more we could do, with the help of the Whalon Fund for the Creative Arts! How much should you give? WFCA Coordinator, The Rev Sunny Hallanan, suggests that you think of one ‘arts-related’ activity you enjoy and give the equivalent of participating in that event one time. “For example,” she says “I go to the opera at the cinema. My ticket costs @ €20 and I get dinner before and ice-cream at intermission. So my total for the event is €45 and that would be my suggested contribution. Someone else might make a trip to a museum, which would cost 20 all-together, and someone else might go to real-live opera, which would be over 100. You get the idea… If everyone in the Convocation gave the amount of one arts experience we would have a total big enough to invest and use the fund income to provide lots of great arts-evangelism throughout the convocation for the future.”
To contribute to the just follow the instructions at
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CONSECRATION BY THE NUMBERS
Here are just some of the figures that lie behind this weekend’s events:
To get to this stage, the Transition Committee met 15 times, its 7 subcommittees equally often, and the Search Committee many times before.
Food for the Friday party will be brought from every church and most mission congregations, and will include 2,800 bite-sized hors d'oeuvres as well as 100+ bottles of crémant and 102 bottles of red wine.
In addition to the Search and Transition Committee, parish volunteers, party planning committee and Cathedral staff -- 71 volunteers in all-- will prepare, serve and clear food and drink for 300+ guests on Friday and 400+ on Saturday.
For the service, banners from 12 congregations will be carried in the procession. 500 chairs will be set up, then taken down for the reception, at which 144 bottles of red, 54 bottles of white wine, 24 liters of apple juice, 16 liters of ginger ale, 45 pound cakes, and 15 "pains surprises" will be served on 450 dessert plates and in 600 wine glasses (much of this thanks to generous donations).
Many thanks to everyone making this possible!
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As we approach the climax of the search and transition process, please continue to hold everyone involved in prayer, especially the Transition Committee, the Cathedral staff and volunteers, the Convocation staff, the Office of the Presiding Bishop, Bishop Pierre and Bishop-elect Mark.
In Christ,
The Transition Committee
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More Information is on Bishop Search Website
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For further information about the Bishop-elect Mark Edington see
This site includes:
- Biographical and other information
- The Convocation Profile, which was developed by the Bishop Search and Nomination Committee, both in an on-line and a downloadable form.
- It also includes other information about the Convocation, which will assist persons who are interested in the bishop search process, including a description of the Convocation Parishes and Missions.
- The Bishop Search has engendered great interest in the Episcopal Church and elsewhere in the Anglican Communion.
Previous Bishop Search Update E-Mails....
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The Episcopal Church in Europe
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The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
is one of four Anglican jurisdictions in continental Europe. The other Anglican jurisdictions in Europe are: the
Lusitanian Church of Portugal
, the
Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain
, and the
Church of England's
Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe
. The Convocation is a jurisdiction of the Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church,
the Most Rev. Michael B. Curry
. The Episcopal Church is one of 39 provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church is present in 16 countries around the world.
The Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, a suffragan bishop to the Presiding Bishop, is based at The American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris. There are congregations in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and Austria. The Convocation functions both as a European Church with a legal corporate structure based in France, as well as being a diocesan-like jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church.
The Episcopal Church has been present in Europe since 1815. The Convocation was created by a Canon of General Convention in 1859, and Bishops in Charge were appointed by the Presiding Bishop. Some were diocesan Bishops or recently retired Bishops, who exercised oversight on a part-time basis. Bishops in Charge have been resident in Europe since 1960.
The first full-time resident Bishop in Charge was the Rt. Rev. Edmond Browning (1971-1974).
The first Bishop in Charge to be elected by the Convocation itself
and the first to be ordained and consecrated in Europe is our present Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Pierre Whalon, who was elected in 2001 and consecrated in St. Paul's Within the Walls Episcopal Church in Rome on November 18, 2001.
Bishop Whalon announced his intention to resign as Bishop in Charge effective July 2019. This initiated a Search Process for our second elected Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe.
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The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe | 23 avenue George V, 75008 Paris, France
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