The Bible and Common Prayer Book Society

08/13/2026

With your financial help we can continue and broaden our ministry to more mission opportunities.

08/10/2026

The Bible and Common Prayer Book Society is launching a new program to provide Bibles, books, authorized liturgies, and study guides at no cost to new seminarians in the ordination process to assist in their theological education.

The Bible and Prayer Book Society will provide study bibles and authorized liturgical resources to all new Episcopal seminarians this fall.

07/19/2026

https://www.episcopalchurchsd.org/article/2016306

By Neva Rae Fox, February 5, 2025 The Bible and Prayer Book Society is forging into new territory...

07/14/2026

https://livingchurch.org/church-life/society-donates-bibles-and-prayer-books-for-nearly-200-years/

St. Luke’s is a handsome red-brick Episcopal church in Newtown, Pennsylvania, featuring a tall bell tower, sparkling white shutters and an eye-catching cherry red front door. Founded in 1832, it has since fallen on such hard times that replacing worn-out prayer books was a financial challenge. “...

07/13/2026

John Henry Hobart's 1815 Pastoral Letter on the Subject of Bible and Common Prayer Book Societies offered a rationale for the beginning of our work in 1809.

BY a canon of our Church it is deemed proper that her Bishops should, from time to time, address Pastoral Letters to the people of their respective diocesses, on such subjects as may appear interesting and useful. The General Pastoral Letter from the House of Bishops, at every General Convention, se...

05/11/2026

Women's prayer book societies were an aspect of gender-separated philanthropy through the 1980s in the case of Philadelphia. https://archive.org/details/female_episcopal_prayer_book1866

05/03/2026

This year, the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society provided a grant to the Church of the Holy Apostles, Oneida, Wisconsin for a new altar book and pew copies of the Book of Common Prayer.

The oldest congregation in the Diocese of Wisconsin, Holy Apostles is the heart of the Oneida Nation, one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Home Service Times: Join us for the Holy Eucharist on Sundays at 9:00am. Most weeks our service is also livestreamed on the church’s page. The Eucharist is also celebrated Wednesday mornings at 10:00 a.m. The Rev. James Biegler (Vicar) Phone: 920.869.2565Address: 2937 Freedom Road, Oneida...

04/28/2026

https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2026/04/28/book-of-common-prayer-draws-gen-z-to-the-anglican-episcopal-tradition/

[Episcopal News Service] In St. Luke’s Chapel at the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, Books of Common Prayer slump in chair pockets, their spinal integrity lost to decade…