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Clergy calls and transitions in the Diocese in the first two months of 2021.

During a global pandemic, creativity is a key. In addition to online and outdoor worship services for Ash Wednesday, many parishes offered “Ashes to Go” for those who were interested [...]

Watch a recording of our Ash Wednesday service, held on February 17, 2021 at 7:30 a.m. The service includes a homily by Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe and a chanting of the Great Litany from the Book [...]

Watch recording: On Thursday, February 11, 2021, Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe joined the Syracuse Police Department’s new Community Engagement Director, Jimmy Oliver, and actress Patrese D. McClain [...]

Forty-nine clergy of the Diocese of Central New York, including Bishop Duncan-Probe, have co-signed an open letter to the mayors and police chiefs of Auburn, Binghamton, Cortland, Elmira, Ithaca, [...]

From the arrival of the first Africans in what would become the United States, the people of this land have wrestled with a preference for white over black. The struggle again is at the forefront [...]

Stewardship team member Peter Koeppel asks: with all the changes of COVID-19,

Following the Inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Bishop Duncan-Probe of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York calls upon the people of the Diocese to seek unity through [...]

On the eve of Inauguration Day, people across the United States joined together at 5:30 p.m. to remember nearly 400,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19. Many churches in the Episcopal [...]

From the beginning of Jesus' life to the end, he taught us what the Kingdom of God is about: embrace of the stranger—not xenophobia, dominion, or genocide; charity and economic fairness toward [...]