News Updates

News Updates

9/29/2003

• Central Florida Disassociates from Convention Actions

  Clergy and lay deputies to a special convention in the Diocese of Central Florida Sept. 20 voted by a 4-to-1 margin to distance the diocese from the Episcopal Church.

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• Albany Joins Voices in Opposition

  A special convention on Sept. 20 in the Diocese of Albany voted by overwhelming margins to disassociate itself from recent General Convention decisions to condone same-sex blessings and grant consent to the consecration of a sexually active homosexual person as Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire.

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• Youngest Bishop Consecrated in Oregon

  The most important thing that will remembered about the episcopacy of the Rt. Rev. Johncy Itty will not be his birthdate — the new Bishop of Oregon is 40, the youngest bishop in the Episcopal Church — but rather his unflagging commitment to establishment of justice on earth, says former Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning.

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• No Blackmail, Bishop Spong Says

  The Episcopal Church should be proud of its vote to confirm the election of the Rev. Canon Gene Robinson as Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire, and should offer no concessions to the shrill voices within the community who have subsequently denounced the General Convention vote, according to the Rt. Rev. John Spong, noted author and retired Bishop of Newark.

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• What's a Home Visit Worth?

  Philadelphia woman's frugal living provides large financial gift to the Diocese of Pennsylvania.

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• Willa Cather's Choice of the Episcopal Church

  Grace Church in the tiny prairie town of Red Cloud, Neb., gains its fame from Willa Cather's confirmation there in 1922.

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• Called to One Table

  The Holy Spirit holds us together in communion at this time of not knowing fully where God will lead us.

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