Mississippi News

View of Hardy Street in downtown Hattiesburg Jana Edwards/photo A powerful tornado ripped through Hattiesburg late Sunday afternoon causing significant damage to homes and businesses. According to reports from a Coast newspaper, the Sun Herald, no one was seriously injured in ...

In his annual address to the 186th Annual Council in Jackson, the Rt. Rev. Duncan Gray, III announced a process that can used by parishes and missions which can lead to an authorization by the bishop to allow clergy to perform a liturgy of same-gender blessings until the next ...

The diocese’s elected standing committee will oversee the nomination and election of the next bishop which will take place in 2014. The actual work of the nomination process begins now and will be led by a nominations committee.

JACKSON, MS – The Episcopal Bishop of Mississippi formally called for the election of his successor Friday night. The Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray, III, announced the beginning of a process which will lead to the election of a Bishop Coadjutor on May 3, 2014. Gray said that he plan...

Mississippi’s “Episcopal House Party” returns to the state capital this year when the 186th Annual Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi convenes Friday, Feb. 1, at the Jackson Convention Complex.