November 3, 2024

In May 2024, the Episcopal Church’s Church Pension Fund (CPF) announced the completion of a report that augments its previously published history. Incorporated in 1914 by an act of the New York Legislature, the CPF was conceived by Massachusetts Bishop William Lawrence. Lawrence introduced a resolution at the 1910 General Convention to create a Joint Commission on the Support of Clergy.

The “Report by the Church Pension Group on the Origins and Sources of Its Assets” presents an accounting of the initial donors’ sources of wealth, original donation to the CPF, and “Connection to Enslavement of Humans or Racist Ideology.” The report concludes with the Fund’s ongoing commitment to address injustice.

The Living Church summarized the effort here.

The previous published history of the CPF is found in this timeline.

–Mary Beth Clack, Mary Blocher, Cindy Coldren, Pat Krol, Liz Levin
–Published in This Week @Emmanuel Church November 3, 2024