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Bp Dietsche on Anti-Gay Hate Crime

May 31, 2013

The Rt. Rev. Andrew M.L. Dietsche issued a pastoral letter today, May 31, (attached in full below) expressing “sorrow and outrage” at the May 18 murder of Mark Carson, and deploring the fact that it was one of a total of nine violent anti-gay hate crimes in the month of May in Manhattan.

Dietsche, who took over as the diocesan bishop in February, said in his statement that the Diocese of New York has “labored to remove every barrier to the full inclusion of and participation by the LGBT community in our church in the whole of our life” and most recently “broadened our understanding of and teaching regarding marriage to include same sex couples.”

While, he observed, there are many who insist that homosexuality is incompatible with the Christian life, “we emphatically do not believe that,” and encouraged the people of the diocese “to let the world see and know that there are countless faithful Episcopalians in the LGBT community, and that they are loved, embraced and respected by the larger body of the Church of which they are and have always been a part.”

Search Begins for Bishop Suffragan

May 6, 2013

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The Committee to Elect a Bishop today announced the beginning of the search process for a Bishop Suffragan. The full text of the announcement is shown below. A special website in English and also in Spanish has been created for the election process, including the full text of the profile, a timeline and all forms.

Comienza la Búsqueda de un(a) Obispo(a) Sufragáneo(a)

May 6, 2013

Bishops Respond to Boston Bombings

April 18, 2013

The Bishop of New York, the Rt. Rev. Andrew M.L. Dietsche and Assistant Bishops the Rt. Rev. Andrew D. Smith and the Rt. Rev. Chilton A. R. Knudsen today issued the following letter to the people of the Diocese of New York.

For this letter in printable pdf form, click here.

Bp Dietsche's Mass of Collegiality Sermon

March 26, 2013

The following is the text of the sermon delivered by the Rt. Rev. Andrew M.L. Dietsche to the priests of the Diocese of New York at the Mass of Collegiality on Holy Tuesday, March 26, 2013.

A printable pdf is also available here.

Bishop Dietsche's Installation Sermon

February 6, 2013

For a printable pdf version of this sermon
click here

Sermon delivered by

The Right Reverend Andrew M.L. Dietsche
XVI Bishop of New York

at the

Recognition, Investiture and Installation
of the XVI Bishop of New York

The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

Saturday, February 2, 2013

The Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple

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Bp Dietsche Installed as 16th Bishop of NY

February 2, 2013

At a service this morning at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Rt. Rev. Andrew Marion Lenow Dietsche was “recognized, invested and installed” as the 16th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

During the service, a congregation that filled the Cathedral to capacity, including 20 bishops and hundreds of clergy, witnessed the passing to Bishop Dietsche of the symbols of office—the stole, cope, miter and crozier of the Bishop of New York— by retiring Bishop Mark S. Sisk, and his seating in the Cathedra, or Bishop’s throne, by Dean Kowalski.

Following the Peace, a letter from the Bishop of London was read out by his commissary, the Rev. Dr. Alan McCormack, and Congressman Charles B. Rangel also addressed the congregation.

A slideshow of selected photographs is available here. 

Bishops write Ferrer on Subway Hate Ads

January 17, 2013

Bishops Mark Sisk, Andrew Dietsche and Andrew Smith wrote MTA Chairman Fernando Ferrer Jan 14 commending the MTA's decision "to continue to display non-commercial speech," but calling on the agency to use the revenues from the latest series of hate-filled anti-Muslim ads, which have been displayed in 240 subway stations, " …to fund the display of ads such as the NYC Commission on Human Rights 'From Many Countries, One City'."

"MTA should not impede the exercise of free speech, but neither should they profit from it when that speech is repugnant," the Bishops wrote. "The strength of our city derives from the people of many cultures, colors and creeds who call it home."

The full text of the bishops' letter to Chairman Ferrer is appended below.

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Text of Dr. Ann Ulanov's Hobart Lecture Published

October 10, 2012

The text of Dr. Ulanov's 2012 Hobart Lecture In Praise of Space is available here.

Faith Leaders Denounce Anti-Moslem Bigotry

September 8, 2010

At an Interfaith Summit held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. September 7, Christian, Moslem and Jewish leaders, including Bishop Sisk, gathered to discuss and condemn the upsurge in Anti-Moslem sentiment and actions, and to discuss ways in which their congregations and communities could take steps to counter it. The full text of the statement, together with a list of those in attendance, appears below.

Complete video of the press conference is available here.

Bishop's letter to diocese supports Islamic center

August 24, 2010

The Bishop of New York, the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk, today sent the following letter to the people of the diocese.

The letter is also available in its original form here.