The Cathedral (founded 1992) is the cathedral of the Diocese of Pennsylvania (founded 1789) of the Episcopal Church within the Anglican Communion. The Rt Rev’d Charles Bennison is the fifteenth bishop of the diocese. The Anglican tradition is historically a via media or middle way between extremes, a tradition which is both Catholic and Reformed, and a body of inclusion for which the unity of the followers of Jesus Christ is more important than individual interpretations of Scripture or dogma. The Anglican tradition celebrates the Christian life as a journey of God’s pilgrim people  “looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2). In the Anglican tradition we are more interested in traveling faithfully and humbly, learning all the way, than in having ‘arrived’.

The Rt Rev’d Charles Bennison