Welcome

Welcome to the official site for The Right Reverend Matthew Davis Cowden, Bishop of West Virginia. Here you’ll find out a little more about me. Some personal, biographical, some of my favorite links, hobbies, and my trivial pursuits. I’ve had this page since the 1990’s and it’s gone through various iterations. In the early days of nascent website culture, it seemed like everyone was going to have a personal site in the future, as in the way we each have our own pocket cell phones with a personal number as well as a Facebook page or direct way of sharing our lives with some version of the public. A personal site like this one of my own name is as much a hub for contact, further information about me, reading some my materials that usually end up further down a news feed on social media, and pictures. Welcome to my little bit of real estate on the internet. +mdc

Bishop Cowden, Choir dress with Dragon Crozier
It’s Parocial Report season! Thank you to clergy, parish staff members, and volunteers for your hard work counting heads, crunching numbers, and sharing the vibrant ministries happening in your churches so that we can have a clearer picture and better understanding of the important work happening in communities. See MoreSee Less
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Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. See MoreSee Less
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This week in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for Church of the Heavenly Rest, Princeton. See MoreSee Less
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