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>Episcopal News Service
>May 17, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Bruce, Glasspool pay first pastoral
calls as bishops suffragan
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEW YORK: St. Philip's celebrates first Thurgood
Marshall feast day
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - MARYLAND: Joe Goodwin Burnett appointed assistant  bishop
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTHERN MICHIGAN: June 15 deadline set for bishop
nominations
* WORLD REPORT - PHILIPPINES: Church leaders express concerns about
next president
* DAYBOOK - May 18: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Always We Begin Again - The Benedictine Way of Living"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: Bruce, Glasspool pay first pastoral calls as bishops  suffragan

>By Pat McCaughan and Janet Kawamoto

[Episcopal News Service] The two newest bishops in the Diocese of Los
Angeles and the Episcopal Church didn't waste any time getting right
down to ministry.

Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce, 53, on May 16 confirmed and
received 15 people and baptized eight during Sunday services at St.
Clement's by-the-Sea Church in San Clemente where she had served as
rector for the past nine years before her election in December.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122257_ENG_HTM.htm

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NEW YORK: St. Philip's celebrates Thurgood Marshall feast day

>By Mary Beth Diss

[Diocese of New York] The Diocese of New York celebrated Supreme Court
Justice Thurgood Marshall's feast day on Sunday, May 16 with a service
at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Harlem, where Marshall was a
longtime parishioner and vestry member.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122259_ENG_HTM.htm

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MARYLAND: Joe Goodwin Burnett appointed assistant bishop

[Diocese of Maryland] Bishop Joe Goodwin Burnett, of Nebraska, will
serve as assistant bishop of Maryland effective April 1, 2011,
following the Jan. 1, 2011, retirement of Maryland Suffragan Bishop
John L. Rabb.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122251_ENG_HTM.htm

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NORTHERN MICHIGAN: June 15 deadline set for bishop nominations

[Diocese of Northern Michigan] The Episcopal Diocese of Northern
Michigan has opened its search for a new bishop, with a June 15
deadline for nominations.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122255_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

PHILIPPINES: Church leaders express concerns about next president

>By Maurice Malanes

[Ecumenical News International, Manila] Filipino church leaders, who
began the presidential election race in their country with optimism,
now say they have much lower hopes of the person who is likely to
become the next president.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122247_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 18, 2010...

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer:

http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm

* Today in History: On May 18, 1851, the first Episcopal church was
established in Oregon. The Rev. William Richmond and the Rev. Michael
Fackler organized Trinity Parish in Portland.

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>EBAR PICK

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