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Thank you for visiting the Diocese of Hawai'i's dedicated news website to keep you informed with the latest news, happenings, events, and announcements taking place in the Diocese and the broader Episcopal Church!  To go to the Diocese's main website, click HERE.

HIGHLIGHTS & LATEST MESSAGES:

2025 Chrism Mass & Spring Training
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Click HERE (3/5/25)

Invitation to Join the Next Session of Insight Space and Licensed Lay Ministries Training HERE (2/15/25)

A Reflection on the Diaconate by Bishop Bob HERE (1/23/25)

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Bishop Bob on Bishop Budde's Homily (1/23/25)
​Funeral Announcements for Bettye Jo Harris and Cecilia Fordham (2/14/25)
A Diocesan Customary (1/9/25)​
​The Los Angeles Fires (1/8/25)

COMING UP IN THE DIOCESE:

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​​2025 ANNUAL CHRISM MASS & SPRING TRAINING
Saturday, April 5, 2025
The Cathedral of St. Andrew
​For more info and to register click HERE

Mark your calendars and save the dates for these important Diocesan events coming up in 2025!

• Ordinations to the Transitional Diaconate (March 14), St. Mark's
• ​Chrism Mass & Spring Training (April 5)​
• Diocesan Youth Retreat (April 11-13), Camp Mokulē'ia
• Annual Clergy Conference (August 25-27)

Community Calendar

​To view regular ongoing activities in our churches, visit the COMMUNITY CALENDAR page.

LATEST NEWS & HEADLINE LINKS:

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THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF HAWAI'I:

• Special Announcement: 2025 Chrism Mass & Spring Training (3/5/25)
• Hawaiian Church Chronicle: Our Clergy Pilgrims, Listening Session on Kaua'i, Student Scholarships Available; Coming up: Installation of Cathedral Dean, Chrism Mass & Spring Training (2/27/25)
• Special Announcement: Interfaith Immigration Info Gathering at St. Elizabeth's (2/25/25)
• Special Announcement: Insight Space and Licensed Lay Ministries Training (2/15/25)
• Special Announcement: Funerals for Bettye Jo Harris and Cecilia Fordham (2/14/25)

 ​THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH & BEYOND:

• ​Presiding bishop discusses vision for church’s future at Episcopal Parish Network conference (2/27/25)
• Bishop Mariann Budde receives mountain of supportive mail after post-inauguration sermon (2/27/25)
• 40th annual Episcopal Parish Network conference focuses on effective leadership amid churchwide, societal realignment (2/25/25)
• Faith groups’ environmental projects halted by Trump’s climate funding freeze (2/18/25)
• Episcopal leaders respond to federal government’s removal of cultural holidays, observances (2/13/25)

LATEST FEATURE STORIES FROM THE CHRONICLE:

For links to more articles, visit the Article Archives webpage HERE​, or full issues HERE.

Our Clergy Pilgrims

Listening Session on Kaua'i

Introducing Huli

NAES: Let Your Light Shine

Reflection on the Life of Bettye Jo Harris

Bishop in Guam

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CONVENTION 56 (Complete Coverage)

Archbishop of Polynesia Visits

Lots to Celebrate at All Saints'

Diocesan Youth Day

Episcopal Schools Week on Maui

Diocesan Clergy Conference

​Click on the Pray for Maui button to go to our dedicated disaster relief page on our main website, with all the latest developments following the August 2023 Maui wildfires and Holy Innocents Church.

NEWS SPOTLIGHT:
CONVENTION 56: In Thanksgiving for the Ministry of Women in the Church

[November 2024]  At long last, complete coverage of Convention 56 of The Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i, is now available for viewing on the Diocese's news website. Held on October 11 and 12, 2024, at The Cathedral of St. Andrew and St. Peter's Episcopal Church, this year's theme, "In Thanksgiving for the Ministry of Women in the Episcopal Church," was evident throughout the two-day event. The Convention Chaplain (the Right Reverend Diana Akiyama, Bishop of Western Oregon), Education Day emcee, presenters and facilitators, including Morning Prayer and Celebrants for the Convention Eucharist, were all women.

Saturday's Annual Meeting went smoothly and ended two hours early, despite two resolutions coming from the floor, and a few ballots going into second and third rounds of voting during the elections. This is the third year that voting was done electronically through personal devices, and it has been a game changer. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive for both days. Mahalo to all for a great Convention 56!

​COMPLETE COVERAGE HERE

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