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Bishop David G. O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Los Angeles, was found dead Saturday (Feb. 18) in his home in Hacienda Heights, a suburb in Los Angeles County, according to news reports.

Greek politicians and the country’s powerful Orthodox Church joined in condemning a retired bishop who claimed Friday that women aren’t raped “without wanting it.”

Bishop Megan Rohrer chose to remove a Latino pastor last December on the Feast of Our Lady Guadalupe even after being made aware that doing so, on one of the most culturally significant and sacred days for Latino Christians, would be “potentially devastating,” according to a report released Wednesday

The presiding bishop of the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States has asked its first transgender bishop, Megan Rohrer, to resign amid criticism over Rohrer's removal of the pastor of a Hispanic congregation on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in December.

In July 2021 Stewart Ruch III, bishop of the Anglican Church in North America's (ACNA) Upper Midwest Diocese, went on leave after making what he called “regrettable errors” in handling cases of abuse in the diocese. Of late Ruch has struck a less than penitent tone.

After consulting with other families who were dealing with homosexuality, former UMC Bishop Richard Wilke began diving into the Scripture on homosexuality. Due to his “big-picture grasp of the Bible,” the bishop concludes “just how insignificant these few passages are.”

In what some have called a "significant step" for women in leadership in the Catholic church, a bishop has appointed a laywoman as parish life coordinator over a parish in Fairfield, Connecticut.