Christ Episcopal Church of Portsmouth, NH

11/14/2025

The Portsmouth Athenaeum had a post that beautifully captured our past and hour faith in the future. Please join us on our pilgrimage as we follow Jesus.

11/11/2025

From Bishop Rob

10/21/2025

As we prepare for our journey, we invite everyone to join us as we follow where we feel called as a community. We will temporarily join Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church - and will return to the property once the building project is complete.

10/20/2025

Please consider joining us as we transition and give Thanksgiving for our shared worship space and the life and times of this sacred space. We do hope you consider joining us- whether you are a long time member or have any connection to this space. All are welcome

06/05/2025

You are invited to a
Bake and Plant Sale
Saturday June 7, 9 am-1 pm
Christ Episcopal Church
1035 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth, NH
Homemade baked goods
Vegetable and Flower plants

07/22/2024

Amazing!🇺🇸❤️☮️

04/10/2024

Exciting things happening for us at Christ Church Portsmouth.

Episcopal Church of NH is partnering with the Portsmouth Housing Authority on a large mixed-use redevelopment of its Lafayette Road property.

03/29/2024

Reflecting on Good Friday, we gather as a family, humbly acknowledging the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who willingly endured betrayal and suffering for our sake. May we find solace in His love as we journey through this sacred time together.

02/12/2024

https://www.seacoastonline.com/obituaries/pprt0720143

Paula C. Kidder, 84, of Eliot, Maine, passed away on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at Portsmouth Hospital with her family by her side. Paula was born...

02/12/2024

Pancakes and bacon. 12 years ago. Peter Monte.

02/11/2024

✝️☮️✝️ written by Richard Belshaw, Priest in Partnership

Paula Kidder
It is with sadness that we report that long time parishioner Paula Kidder died this past Tuesday evening just before 8:00, peacefully, with her family by her side at the Portsmouth Regional Hospital. Our retired rector Chip Robinson was present and administered final prayers.
Paula had suffered through many months of debilitating back injuries and assorted other ailments, which kept her mostly at home. She had an engaging personality, a bright smile, a fierce spirit and will to live up to the end. Her presence at Christ Church stretched all the way to before the 1960's fire at the original location of the church in downtown Portsmouth on Madison Street. At a recent visit, Paula related quite a number of stories of each and every rector the parish has had since! She will be sorely missed by our community. We offer condolences and prayers to her family, as well as thanksgivings for a full life lived. We are comforted in knowing that Paula is now without pain and in the loving, wide embrace of God.
Plans for Paul's funeral service are not fully decided as of yet, but it is likely that it will occur next Friday morning, February 16th. Please stay tuned for updates.

✝️☮️✝️

Peter Monte
Sadly, last week saw another longtime parishioner of Christ Church, Peter Monte, pass into that loving, embrace of God at the Hyder Family Hospice House in Dover. Peter had courageously battled a number of years of daily dialysis treatment following a freak infection that shut his kidneys down. He had recently suffered some falls at his home which landed him in the hospital. In constant pain, he made the decision to turn off his dialysis machine about five days before he entered God's realm of eternal peace. Two of his four remaining siblings were with him and many friends visited him in the last week to say goodbye. I was by his side the day before, the room full of life with others present, his brother reading Peter text messages sent from persons afar, his sister making sure he was as comfortable as possible, his close friend Glen helping as best he could - all of which I believe Peter deeply appreciated. He shook my hand and thanked me for being there. He died early the next morning on Friday, February 2nd. Peter was very brave, strong to the end. Again, we offer condolences and prayers to his extended family, to Glen, and to Peter's many friends.
Peter's memorial service is in the early stages of discernment and planning, with a date in June likely. His ashes will be interred in Christ Church's Memorial Garden.