While some American churchgoers are planning Sunday sermons and Saturday bazaars, Moravian Bishop John Wilson spends his days thinking about things like his congregation’s religious freedom.

A Moravian Seminary official has been elected the first woman bishop in the worldwide history of the Moravian Church. Delegates’ election of the Rev. Dr. Kay Ward of Bethlehem as a bishop in the ...

the Moravian Book Shop opens, four years after Bethlehem’s founding. The Moravian bishop had suggested the settlement would need many new books. Samuel Powell, keeper of the Church’s Crown Inn ...

Bishop Thomas married Fay James in 1961, and as a young pastor immigrated to the United States with his family in 1967, settling in Queens. He continued theological studies at Moravian Theological ...

AND DURING THE SERVICE, HANDBELLS. CERTAIN HYMNS AND THOUSANDS OF BEESWAX CANDLES, HANDMADE THE WAY THEY WERE HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO, 1747 A MORAVIAN BISHOP HAD THE IDEA FOR THE CHILDREN’S ...

The Commencement exercises of the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies took place to-day in the Seminary Chapel. On Monday evening the Right Rev. E. De Schweinitz, S.T.D., Bishop of the Moravian ...

Congregants of Bethlehem’s Central Moravian Church are mourning the death of their senior pastor, who served for the past decade. Bishop C. Hopeton Clennon died at noon Sunday, surrounded by ...

Nestled in the Lehigh Valley region, the city was founded and given its name on Christmas Eve 1741 by a Moravian bishop named Nicolaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf, according to a 1903 account of ...

On Christmas Eve 1741, German Moravian bishop Nicolaus Zinzendorf christened the city Bethlehem. In 1747, it became the first ...