Virginia Episcopalian Magazine Summer 2014 Issue | Page 36

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Members of the Parish Youth Ministries group gather for their last meeting of the program year in May.
2  March 29, Virginia Episcopalians, local government officials and representatives of the Virginia Department
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of Historic Resources gathered at St. Stephen’s, Petersburg, for the unveiling of a Virginia historical marker
documenting the Bishop Payne Divinity School. Established at St. Stephen’s Church in 1878, Bishop Payne Divinity
School educated African Americans for Episcopal Church ministry until its 1949 closure and 1953 merger with
Virginia Theological Seminary. Pictured (left to right) are the Rev. W. Pegram Johnson III, the Rev. Willis Foster Sr.,
the Rev. Phoebe Roaf and the Rev. Canon Lloyd Alexander Lewis Jr.
3  uck Blanchard (left) and Amy Williams of diocesan staff welcome the Rt. Rev. Dom Filadelfo Oliveira Neto, bishop
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of the Anglican Diocese of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during his May 2014 visit to the Diocese of Virginia.
4 he new “Little Free Library” at Emmanuel, Harrisonburg, encourages visitors to take a book or leave a book.
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5  he Falls Church Episcopal hosted its first Commun