This story was corrected March 21 to reflect St. Paul’s, Ventura, as the correct location for Deanery 1’s April 5 listening session. The News regrets the error.
The Bishop Search Committee in-person listening sessions, designed to gather input for the November 2025 election of a successor to the Rt. Rev. John Harvey Taylor, are scheduled in the diocese’s geographic deaneries as follows:
March 22, Deanery 3, Holy Faith, Inglewood, 10 a.m.
March 22, Deanery 4, St. Mark’s, Glendale, 10 a.m.
March 29 Deanery 9, Trinity, Orange, 10 a.m.
March 29, Deanery 10, St. Wilfrid’s, Huntington Beach, 10 a.m.
April 5, Deanery 1, St. Paul’s, Ventura, 10 a.m.
April 5, Deanery 7, Trinity, Redlands, 10 a.m.
April 12, Deanery 2, St. Stephen’s, Santa Clarita, 10 a.m.
April 12, Deanery 8, St. Cross, Hermosa Beach, 10 a.m.
April 26, Deanery 5, Our Saviour, San Gabriel, 10 a.m.
April 26, Deanery 6, Holy Trinity, Covina, 10 a.m.
Parishioners and clergy may attend any of the listening sessions, regardless of their deanery.
There also will be additional virtual listening sessions held by Zoom. These will include general virtual sessions open to all, sessions specifically for clergy, a session for diocesan staff, and sessions for special ministry groups, including Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Ministry, Black Ministry, and Latino Ministry groups.
The Latino Ministry listening sessions will be April 1, 6 p.m. and April 10, 6 p.m. Contact the Rev. Carlos Ruvalcaba, associate at St. Stephen’s, Hollywood, and St. Barnabas, Eagle Rock, at associatestbeststephens@gmail.com.
The Black Ministry listening session will be April 8, 6 p.m. Contact the Rev. Joseph Oloimooja, priest-in-charge of Holy Faith, Inglewood, for zoom links at oloimooja@yahoo.com.
A listening session for API ministry communities is being scheduled and details will be available soon.
The general laity sessions will take place April 3 and April 22, 6 p.m. Zoom links will be available in coming weeks.
Clergy listening sessions will be April 24. Zoom links will be made available in coming weeks.
A session for diocesan staff will be April 1 at 2 p.m. Diocesan staff will receive the zoom link in coming weeks.
In addition to the listening sessions, the Bishop Search Committee will have a survey, which will open March 31.
Spanish translation will be available at all in-person deanery sessions. For questions about translation from languages other than Spanish, and other questions about listening sessions, contact Laura Mahaney at lolako@yahoo.com.