Richard Mammana is a lay church historian, author, beekeeper, father, husband, and communicant of S. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia. He serves as archivist of The Living Church Foundation and launched Anglicanhistory.org in 1999.
The launch of Sacristies of New York: Textile Treasures of the Episcopal Church in December 2023 was a notable moment in the overlapping stories of worship, material art, conservation, church history, and church archives in the New York metro region.
The publication of an official grant of heraldic arms to an American-born Anglican bishop, the Rt. Rev. Terry M. Brown, is a relatively uncommon event of the church in North America.
By H. Boone Porter Jr.
Edited and introduced by Richard J. Mammana, Jr.
The following essay by Harry Boone Porter Jr. (1923-99) was first published in...
By Leonel L. Mitchell
Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana Jr.
In 1964, Leonel Lake Mitchell (1930-2012) became the first person to receive a Th.D. in...
The first webinar in Past Reckoning: Exploring the Racial History of the Moravian and Episcopal Churches drew more than 400 registrants on January 25....
Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana
This long editorial about missals comes from the desk of Peter Morton Day (1914-1984), TLC’s editor between 1952 and...
