Last month, a Moravian pastor was installed as rector of a U.S. Episcopal Church for the first time since the two denominations inaugurated a full-communion relationship in 2011. The Rev. Carl Southerland was formally received on Sept. 16 at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Franklin, N.C.
The Southern Province of the Moravian Church in America voted last week to enter into a covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).