News Updates

News Updates

3/14/2005

• Archbishop Won't Attend U.S.-Canadian Bishops Meeting

  The Archbishop of Canterbury will not attend a joint meeting of members of the U.S. and Canadian houses of bishops next month — a decision that is linked to the turmoil over homosexuality, according to the Primate of Canada.

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• An Asian Focus

  Several articles this week look at the ministries of Asian Americans within the life and work of the Episcopal Church.

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• The Awful, Bloody Truth

  During Lent, we are led to ponder the cost that had to be borne for all our misdeeds. The bloody death of Jesus Christ for our sake is not some ancient, gruesome notion that we have outgrown today. (By Claudia Dickson)

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• San Diego Bishop Consecrated

  Pledging to act with “sensitivity to local, national and global aspects” of the Anglican Communion, the Rev. Canon James R. Mathes was consecrated as the fourth Bishop of San Diego in a festive ceremony whose procession lasted more than 10 minutes in front of an estimated 1,600 people at a see city hotel convention center March 5.

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• Amicable Separation in Diocese of Kansas

  The Diocese of Kansas and its largest parish recently announced an amicable separation agreement which calls for Christ Church, Overland Park, to pay $1 million over the next 10 years to retain its property, and for the clergy and parish to be relieved of canonical obligation to the Episcopal Church. Left unresolved is whether the parish will later affiliate with another province of the Anglican Communion.

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• Bishop Trelease Was Champion of the Poor

  Bishop Richard M. Trelease, Jr., fifth Bishop of the Rio Grande, who was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus last fall, died Feb. 25. He was 84.

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• Bishop Gallagher Resigns

  The Rt. Rev. Carol Joy Gallagher, Bishop Suffragan of Southern Virginia, agreed orally to accept a buyout offer and vacate the position she has held for about three years. She will seek other employment, but intends to stay in Richmond until the end of the school year.

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• Six English Bishops Back U.S. Church

  Six diocesan bishops of the Church of England have declared their “determined” support for the Episcopal Church in a letter to The Times, published March 7. Headed by the Rt. Rev. David Stancliffe, Bishop of Salisbury, the letter states that “we remain in full sacramental fellowship with all the churches of the Anglican Communion, including those of Canada and the U.S.”

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• International Gathering of Women

  Women from many Anglican Communion provinces participated in a forum March 6 to address poverty, disease and gender equity, among other issues, at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. The event was held in conjunction with the 49th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

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• Theology of Confirmation on House of Bishops' Agenda

  Along with a response to the communiqué from the recent primates’ meeting, the House of Bishops, gathered in Texas for their spring retreat, are also discussing the theology of confirmation. A committee of bishops charged with preparing a series of working papers on the topic stated that the topic is “both more far-reaching and more complex than may at first seem to be the case."

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