More than 130 Episcopalians gathered on February 22 at St. James, Houston, to celebrate Absalom Jones, the Episcopal Church's first African-American priest. Six of the Diocese's seven African-American clergy joined the celebration.

Bishop Benitez & Bishop Doyleat Diocesan Council in 2012 In the response to the death of Bishop Maurice "Ben" Benitez, Bishop Andy Doyle offered the following words:   Bishop Benitez was the bishop who sent me to seminary. I attended one clergy conference before he...

The Rt. Rev. Maurice M. "Ben" Benitez, 6th Bishop of Texas, died Thursday, February 27 in Austin, TX.

El Buen Samaritano, a nonprofit and outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, is pleased to announce the appointment of Iliana Gilman as its executive director starting April 1, 2014.

Many Texans were struggling to pay for basic health services on the eve of the launch of the Affordable Care Act's Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a report released today by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Episcopal Health Foundation.

The Southwest Showdown, an annual barbecue cook-off benefitting Episcopal Relief & Development and organized by students of the Seminary of the Southwest, returns to Austin, featuring the music of Two Day Suitcase as well as Tessy Lou and the Shotgun Stars.

Today, the legacy of these many pioneering Episcopalians continues with a church family that comes from different ethnic, social and economic backgrounds, but who are knit together by the Holy Spirit.

“We are a tenacious diocese that claims a tenacious God,” Bishop Andy Doyle told the nearly 700 clergy and lay representatives gathered in Galveston.