The Bishop’s Blog

Ex cathedra

Ex cathedra

Peripatetic me — it took me almost five years to take my seat. An episcopal seat is called a cathedra. Ours in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles,...

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Ordination of deacons

Ordination of deacons

My scrapbook from this morning’s glorious ordination service at St. John's Cathedral in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

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Daily prayer: For the ordinands

Daily prayer: For the ordinands

Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, in your divine providence you have appointed various orders in your Church: Give your grace, we humbly...

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Daily prayer: Following in faith

Daily prayer: Following in faith

Lord Jesus Christ, by your death you took away the sting of death: Grant to us your servants so to follow in faith where you have led the way, that...

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About the Blog

Bishop John Harvey Taylor has devoted himself to promoting reconciliation, transparency, and a stronger financial and organizational foundation for the diocese’s 200 parishes, missions, schools, and other institutions. In those called to leadership in the church, whether lay or ordained, he encourages the exercise of empathy and curiosity as tools of evangelism, to enrich relationships and build new ones across the barriers of difference and prejudice according to race, language, geography, orientation, identification, age, and socioeconomics.

These are some of his reflections: