News Updates

News Updates

9/21/2004

• Pax Instead of Pox

  The Episcopal Church has a valuable legacy of inclusion that needs to be upheld and protected. (By Stephen H. Bancroft)

  Posted on September 21, 2004

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• Frances: Another Blow to Battered Churches

  Hurricane Frances has long finished its assault on Florida, but the effects are lasting.

  Posted on September 21, 2004

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• L.A. Diocese Files Lawsuits Against Three Congregations

  Services Labor Day weekend at all three Diocese of Los Angeles churches that have declared their independence from the Episcopal Church occurred amid tension following developments during the previous week which suggest the dispute may become a protracted legal one.

  Posted on September 21, 2004

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• U.S. Bishops Visiting Archbishop Williams

  The Bishop of West Tennessee has not changed his position regarding the American Anglican Council and the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes, but he has decided to hear for himself what future role the Archbishop of Canterbury sees for those two organizations within the Anglican Communion.

  Posted on September 21, 2004

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• Talk of ‘Civil War’ in England

  Leaders of the progressive wing of the Church of England have threatened “civil war” should Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Anglican primates attempt to discipline the Episcopal Church for consecrating the Rev. Canon V. Gene Robinson as Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire.

  Posted on September 21, 2004

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• Florida Parish Charters AMiA Congregation

  An Episcopal church in the Diocese of Florida has planted a congregation of the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) following a decision by the Rt. Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, Bishop of Florida, not to re-license a parish assistant.

  Posted on September 21, 2004

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• ‘Alpha’ Bishop Planned for Church of England

  The Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) will soon have an English counterpart, as the Church of Uganda will sponsor a missionary bishop to serve in England.

  Posted on September 21, 2004

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• Bishop Griswold Preaches on ‘Boundaries’ of Mercy

  Tolerance and reconciliation were stressed by the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop, in a sermon at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, Sept. 12. Bishop Griswold had been invited to preach by the dean of St. Paul’s, the Very Rev. John Moses, some...

  Posted on September 21, 2004

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• Four U.S. Bishops Endorse Call for Repentance

  The bishops of Dallas, South Carolina, Central Florida and Southwest Florida have endorsed an international proposal calling for the expulsion of the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion unless it repents within two years of the decisions taken by the 74th General Convention.

  Posted on September 21, 2004

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