The Bible and Common Prayer Book Society

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…

12/31/2025

This project was a highlight of the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society's grant year:

Bishop Jonathan H. Folts: “By using Dakota hymnals, we aim to honor and uphold Native cultural understandings and theology.”

12/22/2025

You can support the work of the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society at any time through a deductible financial contribution:

12/14/2025

This page from the Diocese of South Dakota highlights the society's work:

That they might have life

12/07/2025

https://archive.org/details/fourteenth-annual-report-1829

The Fourteenth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Auxiliary New-York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society Read before the Society in St. John's...

12/04/2025

The Bible and Common Prayer Book Society is one of the oldest continuously-operating Episcopal Church organizations. This is a newly-digitized snapshot of its life in 1839 as it prepares for its annual meeting today:

Third Annual Report: Being the Thirty-first Consecutive Report. MDCCC###IX.Held at the Anniversary Meeting, at the Church of St. Bartholomew, Thursday, October...

09/10/2025

Our website is up and running once again:

We have a legacy of inclusion, aspiring to tell and exemplify God’s love for every human being; women and men serve as bishops, priests, and deacons in our church. Laypeople and clergy cooperate as leaders at all levels of our church. Leadership is a gift from God, and can be expressed by all peop...

05/10/2025

https://episcopalnewsservice.org/pressreleases/church-publishing-announces-the-groundbreaking-publication-of-the-dakota-hymnal/

Church Publishing, the publisher of official worship materials, books, music, and digital ministry resources for The Episcopal Church, announced it will publish Wakan Cekiye Odowan / The Dakota Hym…