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St. Paul's Within-the-Walls in Rome, Italy, was originally established in 1859 as Grace Church. The name was changed to St. Paul’s in 1871 after the city of Rome ceased to be governed by the Vatican and the building of non-Roman Catholic churches was allowed within the walls of the city. In 1872, ground was broken on a new church, with construction completed in 1880.

A major restorative project of the church began in 1975 and was completed in the 1980s. With its mosaics and Italian Gothic architecture, St. Paul's is in harmony with its Roman setting. Since the end of the Second Vatican Council, St. Paul's has embraced the Roman Catholic Church's call for ecumenism and commissioned doors to commemorate the historic event. St. Paul’s houses the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center which provides ministry to political refugees and forced migrants who travel through Rome.

While St. Paul’s is a member of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, it maintains its own Board of Trustees. Together, the three boards (which also includes the St. James Episcopal Church in Florence, Italy) manage endowments for the churches in the convocation.

The Society of St. Margaret is a religious order of the Anglican Church with related but independent chapters on several continents. The order began in 1856 at East Grinstead, England under the guidance of by John Henry Neale. Houses followed in London at St. Saviour’s Priory in 1870 and St. Margaret’s House in Boston, Massachusetts in 1873.

The Sisters who arrived in Boston in 1873 were invited to help minister to the sick at Boston’s Children’s Hospital, a ministry that ended in 1917. The order's mission evolved into hospital care, health and wellness of women and children, education in pursuit of community, and a supportive religious enclave for independent women seeking a spiritual life and motivation. The Boston chapter purchased their first permanent site in Louisburg Square in 1881 and began to generate mission houses throughout the East and in Canada. St. Monica’s infirmary (Joy Street) and later St. Monica’s Home in Roxbury continued in operation until 1988 as a ministry to the elderly. The other nearby institution, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, was a summer camp program for girls and summer residence for the Sisters. The Duxbury property became the permanent House for the Society with the closing of the Roxbury convent in 2011.

Other houses and missions that were established are Montreal (1885), Toronto (at Bracebridge, closed in 1944), Philadelphia (1884), New Hartford (near Utica, NY, n.d.), New York (Oliver St., closed 1956), Newark (St. Barnabas’ Hospital, closed 1923, and House of Prayer, 1939), and Lexington, Kentucky (St. Agnes House, 1975). Most notably, the Sisters established a mission in Port au Prince, Haiti, in 1927, where they opened a school for children with disabilities, founded a home for elderly women, and established an orchestra, among other ministries. The Society continues its ministries in Boston, New York City, and Port-au-Prince to this day.

Founded in 1951 by Episcopal priest, the Rev. David A. Works, the North Conway Institute (NCI) was an ecumenical organization focused on shaping alcohol policy through education and advocacy rather than promoting abstinence. Initially based in New Hampshire and later in Boston, NCI’s work extended beyond New England, influencing national church bodies and government agencies. Its staff served on numerous boards, and the organization was known for its interfaith approach and emphasis on collaboration.

Works strove for NCI to be a catalyst in the church and society. He encouraged people and groups to come together to face the problems of alcoholism. The Institute sponsored conferences, seminars and created working partnerships with government organizations and private sector businesses. Yearly conferences hosted by NCI brought together leaders within different disciplines to share and discuss information and to propose solutions to problems caused by alcohol. Doctors, clergy members, government workers and business leaders were among those that attended the summer conferences.

During the 1950s and 1960s, NCI worked at the forefront of discussion concerning drunk driving. In 1956 and 1959, North Conway Institute co-sponsored the Governor's Conferences on "Drinking Drivers." In 1963, North Conway Institute worked with the Institute for Safer Living of the American Mutual Liability Insurance Company to host a Conference on Church Action for Highway Safety.

NCI was also instrumental in forming The Ecumenical Council on Alcohol Programs (TECAP). This group created the first policy guide written by an interdisciplinary and ecumenical board which accepts the use of alcohol by church members. The Ecumenical Council on Alcohol Programs involved Protestants, Catholics, Jews and several secular agencies.

During the 1960s many groups concerned with alcohol problems widened their emphasis from care of the alcoholic to include prevention of alcohol problems. NCI was involved in this movement through sponsorship of the 1968 annual NCI conference which explored how the church could help prevent problem drinking. During this same time, NCI worked with the National Council of Churches Task Force on Alcohol Problems to introduce the 1967 Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism report to the public. This report was the result of a six year study by an interdisciplinary committee funded by a $1.1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. The report proved controversial at the time because it supported the changing of drinking practices and attitudes as a way to prevent future problems with alcohol in American culture. Specifically the government report called for a lower drinking age and encouraged the responsible use of alcohol by youth in such environments as church and sporting events.

Much of NCI's influence in government and industry resulted from the experience of its leader David Works who served as a consultant for federal, state and church agencies. Works was once called "the prophet the church did not want to listen to," by the Rev. J. David Else, president of the National Episcopal Coalition on Alcohol. In 1955 Works was appointed chairman of the U.S. Government Commission on Alcoholism among American Indians. This was the first action concerning alcoholism taken by the federal government after Prohibition. During the 1970s Works served as chairman for numerous committees including the National Council of Churches Task Force on Alcohol and Drug Problems, a U.S. Department of Transportation study on drunk driving programs, the Conference for Religious Leaders of the National Safety Council and the Massachusetts Drug Rehabilitation Advisory Board.

NCI also quietly helped hundreds of families and individuals affected by alcohol problems. Many of the resources collected at the NCI offices and brochures published by NCI were shared with pastors, friends and associates who were trying to help a family member or employee with an alcohol problem.

The Board of Foreign Parishes of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America is a corporation founded in New York State in 1883. The purpose of the corporation is to establish and support Episcopal churches in Europe. These congregations were established to provide a familiar place of worship and a church community for Americans living in or visiting Europe.

The Board acts as a trusteeship for parishes in holding legal title to their property. It acts as both a fiduciary agent and a coordinating business entity for congregations of The Episcopal Church on the European continent. As of 2008, the Board served eight congregations. In 2019, fifteen Episcopal Church congregations were under the supervision of bishop for the Episcopal Churches in Europe (ECIE). It is unclear which, if any, of the additional seven are aided by the Board of Foreign Parishes.

Two parishes maintain independent boards: St. Paul’s Church (Rome, Italy) and St. James’ Church (Florence, Italy). Together, the three boards manage endowments for the Convocation of American Churches in Europe.

Born (circa 1858) and raised in New York City, Agnes P. Mahony graduated from the New York City Training School for Nurses in 1881. For the next twenty years, Mahony served in various nursing positions throughout New York.

Mahony entered missionary work upon her appointment to Liberia on March 12, 1901. She served as a nurse/missionary in the Episcopal mission in Liberia from 1901 to 1902 and from 1904 to1906. Mahony resigned from the mission in 1902 because of failing health, but she returned to the United States in 1904 only to retire for the same reasons in 1906. During her work in Liberia, Mahony founded the House of Bethany at Cape Mount.

Clifford P. Morehouse was born on April 18, 1904 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from Harvard in 1925 and received a master’s degree from Marquette in 1937. Some thirty years later he earned his doctorate from General Theological Seminary.

After graduating from Harvard, Clifford joined his father at the recently renamed Morehouse Publishing Company. He would go on to serve many roles in the company over the years, including taking over as editor of The Living Church after his father’s death in 1932, a position he held until 1952. It was at that time that Morehouse moved his family from Milwaukee to New York to assume a larger role in the company, which was then known as Morehouse-Gorham Co., first as vice president (1952-1964) then as president (1964-1970). After his retirement in 1970, he accepted the position of Chairman and remained involved with the company for several more years.

During his life he remained a steadfast and dedicated member of The Episcopal Church, being elected President of the House of Deputies by unanimous vote at the 1961 General Convention in Detroit and again in St. Louis in 1964. At the time he was only the second lay person to serve in that role. After he declined to run for re-election in 1967, he was elected to membership on the Church’s Executive Council where he served until 1973.

Clifford P. Morehouse died on February 17, 1977. In its obituary, the New York Times described Morehouse as “one of the best-known laymen in the Episcopal Church.”

Born on May 21, 1885, in Kittaning, Pennsylvania, Frank Wilson graduated from Hobart College in 1907. He graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity from General Theological Seminary in New York in 1910 and was ordained a priest later that year. After serving in various churches and as an Army chaplain during World War I, he became rector of Christ Church Cathedral in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 1919. In 1928, Wilson was elected as the first Bishop of the new Diocese of Eau Claire and was consecrated in 1929.

Frank Elmer Wilson died in office on February 16, 1944.

Lyman Cunningham Ogilby was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1922. After receiving his B.D. from the Episcopal Theological School in 1949, Ogilby became a teacher and chaplain at the Brent School, a position he held until 1952. From 1953 to 1967, he served as a bishop in the Philippines, first as Suffragan Bishop of the Philippines (1953-1957) and then as Missionary Bishop of the Philippines (1957-1967).

In spite of his attachment to the Brent School and to the Philippines, Ogilby saw his true ministry as a missionary bishop, whose calling was, in part, to prepare missionary dioceses of the Church for self-support. In 1967, Ogilby resigned as Bishop of the Philippines in order to give the leadership role to Benito Cabanban, a native Filipino who had served as Suffragan Bishop since 1959. Upon his return to the United States in 1967, Ogilby served as Bishop Coadjutor in South Dakota, which was then still a Missionary District. His address to the diocesan convention in that year shows that he expected to assist briefly and then take over the diocese. In January of 1970 he did briefly became Bishop in-charge of South Dakota upon the retirement of Bishop Conrad Gesner, but he served only long enough to guide the election of a new Bishop Diocesan before resigning in March of 1970. From 1971 to 1973, he served as Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania, supervising missions and aiding parishes under Bishop Robert DeWitt. He became Bishop Coadjutor in 1973, and upon DeWitt’s resignation in 1974, Ogilby became Bishop of Pennsylvania. He held that position until his retirement in 1987. After retirement, he continued to carry out Episcopal duties in the dioceses of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington DC.

Lyman Cunningham Ogilby died on November 3 1990.