Out & About
So, what does our Bishop do anyway?
By Paula A Bibber
May 6, 2008, 10:45

In addition to meetings with staff and private appointments at the Bishop’s Office, various committee meetings, and public events covered in the current issue or in previous issues of New Hampshire Episcopal News, here is a sampling of our bishop's schedule:

April

5                    Keynote speaker at the Stewardship Institute at the Barbara Harris Center

6                    Visitation at Trinity Church, Claremont – preach and celebrate

            Dedication of the Jonathan Daniels Chapel in Hanover

9                    Mission Center Day – Grace Church, Manchester

10                Anglican Convenant Conference, New York

11                Province I Bishops Conference Call

12                Dinner with confirmands, Church of Our Saviour, Milford

13                Visitation at Church of Our Saviour, Milford – preach and celebrate

16                Bishops Pre-Lambeth Conference

20                St. Thomas Church, Hanover – baptism and confirmation

22-24      Church Pension Group, Board of Trustees meeting, NYC

26                Children at Worship workshop, St. John’s, Portsmouth

            Funeral for the Rev. Dcn. Robert Morin, Berlin

27                Visitation at Church of the Messiah, North Woodstock – preach and celebrate

May

2                  Holderness School Chapel – preach and celebrate

           Meeting with Presiding Bishop, Portland, Maine

3                  Consecration of Bishop Co-Adjutor, Diocese of Maine    

4                  Visitation at St. Matthew’s Church, Goffstown – preach and celebrate
Regional Confirmation at St. Andrew’s Church, Hopkinton – preach and celebrate

9                  Meeting with General Convention Deputies

10              North Country Gathering, Lancaster
Dinner with confirmands and vestry, Trinity Church, Meredith

11              Visitation at Trinity Church, Meredith – preach and celebrate

14                Mission Center Day – St. Paul’s Church, Lancaster

15                St. Paul’s School Chapel – preach and celebrate

16-17      B+E+S+T Conference, Providence RI (Bishop’s Executive Secretaries Together)

18       Visitation at St. Andrew’s Church in New London – preach and celebrate

20        Retired Clergy Luncheon, Grace Church, Concord
21        Fresh Start, St. Paul’s Church, Concord

31        Bishop’s Meeting with People of Colo, St. Paul’s Church, Concord
            Dinner with confirmands, Christ Church, Exeter

June

1          Visitation at Christ Church, Exeter – preach and celebrate
            Regional Confirmation at St. John’s Church, Portsmouth

3          Ordination to the Diaconate – Jeffrey Thornberg, Church of the Good Shepherd,  Nashua               

4          Host Parish Secretaries and Administrators Day at Diocesan House
            Ordination to the Priesthood – the Rev. Kathleen Cullen, St. Thomas Church, Dover

10        Province I Bishops Meeting, St. Paul’s Church, Concord
            Celebration of New Ministry at Church of St. John the Baptist, Sanbornville

11        Mission Center Day at St. Thomas Church, Dover

            Ordination to the Priesthood – The Rev. Gail Avery, St. Andrew’s-in-the-Valley, Tamworth

16                Visitation at Church of the Good Shepherd, Nashua – preach and celebrate

17-19      Church Pension Group, Board of Trustees, NYC

21                Diocesan Spring Event, Gunstock in Gilford

22                Visitation at St. Paul’s Church in Concord – preach and celebrate

25                Ordination to the Diaconate – Barbara Talcott, St. Paul’s Church, Concord

26                Bishop’s Clergy Day – All Saints Church, Littleton