General Convention

Betty Bowersox explains her new understanding of General Convention and reflects on the legislative action from day two of GC80.

The House of Deputies elected Julia Ayala Harris, lay deputy from Oklahoma, as its new president during its morning session on July 9 at the 80th General Convention.

The Rev. Shug Goodlow reacts to her first day as a first-time deputy at General Convention.

DioMO Deputy Michael Booker gives us an overview of General Convention and wraps up his first day of activities at GC80.

At the end of its morning session on July 8, members of the House of Deputies honored the members of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, who were murdered June 16 by a man who was attending a potluck supper at the church.

Opening the 80th General Convention here on July 8, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry put the gathering in context: perhaps not the grand, joyous reunion the church had craved, but a moment of orientation in “strange and difficult days.”

Greetings on the first day of The Episcopal Church’s 80th General Convention in Baltimore. These daily updates from the Office of Public Affairs are morning and evening roundups of news, events, and resources related to GC80, which runs through July 11.

Bishops, deputies, and volunteers from throughout the Episcopal Church -- including a dozen from the Diocese of Missouri -- are converging on Baltimore, Maryland tonight for the 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church. The event begins Friday, July 8. Along with this wave of excitement comes the reality that this is a COVID convention, and things are going to be very different from usual.