The Diocese of Chicago has held 183 annual conventions, but the one that took place on November 21 was the first to happen online. Using the webinar setting in Zoom videoconferencing software, more than 550 clergy and lay delegates debated resolutions, reviewed the $4.97 million budget and listened to Bishop Jeff Lee’s final diocesan convention…
Watch the sermon on YouTube. Some of you might remember about a year ago, in those bygone days when we actually used to be able to meet in person, and in what I thought would be my last convention as the bishop of this diocese, I preached a sermon titled, “Bishops Come and Bishops Go.”…
Dear People of God in the Diocese of Chicago: I am writing with the difficult news that we must once again observe some significant restrictions on our common life due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday, the Illinois Department of Health recommended that for the next three weeks, residents of our state leave home only for…
Registration and certification for clergy and lay delegates required by December 1 The Convention to Elect the 13th Bishop of Chicago will be conducted online via Zoom webinar on Saturday, December 12 from 9:30 am to approximately 3 pm. There is no cost to attend. Registration is open for lay delegates and canonically resident clergy…
MESSAGE FROM BP. JOSEPH GARANG ATEM For Diocesan Convention 2020 Dear Rt. Rev. Jeffrey Lee, Lisa, clergy, lay delegates, visitors and guests attending the 183rd Diocese of Chicago Convention, as well as my brother Bishop of Southeast Mexico. May mercy, grace, peace and love be multiplied upon you all. I am thankful to God, and…
On Saturday, December 5, 2020 at 4 pm, the Transition Committee will host a Zoom gathering to wish Jeff and Lisa Lee and their family well as his retirement approaches. Bishop Lee has invited a number of parishioners, clergy, and bishops to offer short videos, and both he and Lisa will have an opportunity to address the diocese. He…
