News Updates

News Updates

May 2005

• Canadian ACC Representatives Named

  Archbishop Andrew Hutchison has asked three supporters and one opponent of rites for the blessing of same-sex unions to speak for the Anglican Church of Canada June 21 at the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Nottingham, England.

  Posted on May 31, 2005

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• Irregular Bishops Under Threat

  Archbishop Philip Aspinall of Brisbane has said a priest from his benefice, the Rt. Rev. David Chislett, may not hold episcopal orders in a continuing Anglican Church and remain rector of All Saints’ Church, Wickam Terrace. Bishop Chislett and the Rt. Rev. David Moyer were conscrated bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) Feb. 16 at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, Pa.

  Posted on May 31, 2005

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• Southwest Florida Election to Be Rescheduled

  The standing committee of the Diocese of Southwest Florida is proposing to cancel the bishop coadjutor election scheduled for Dec. 3 and in the spirit of the House of Bishops’ covenant agreement, it will ask the annual convention meeting on that day to agree to a new election timetable leading to a Dec 9, 2006 electing convention.

  Posted on May 30, 2005

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• Diocesan Leaders Work on Peacemaking

  The Diocese of Western Massachusetts in April worked with the Rev. Canon F. Brian Cox, rector of Christ the King Parish in Santa Barbara, Calif., and his colleagues from the Diocese of Los Angeles as well as with leaders from the Dioceses of Ohio and Northern Indiana to receive a vision of faith-based reconciliation. That vision is being taken back to the dioceses.

  Posted on May 29, 2005

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• Easton Administrator Charged with Theft

  The financial administrator of the Diocese of Easton has been arrested and charged with 19 counts of theft after being suspected of embezzling more than $75,000. Police in Easton, Md., arrested Gail Swartz on May 20 and are holding her at the Talbot County Detention Center in lieu of $75,000 bond.

  Posted on May 29, 2005

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• Cross Burned at Durham, N.C., Church

  The Bishop of North Carolina celebrated Holy Eucharist at St. Luke's, Durham earlier today after vandals claiming membership in the Klu Klux Klan burnt a cross in front of the parish as well as two other locations in the city on May 25.

  Posted on May 29, 2005

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• Rector of Prestigious Episcopal School to Resign

  The Rt. Rev. Craig B. Anderson, Rector of St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and former Bishop of South Dakota, has agreed to step down as headmaster at the end of the school term next month

  Posted on May 29, 2005

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• Brazilian Archdeacon Meets with Lambeth Palace

  The Ven. Mguel Uchoa, Archdeacon of Southern Recife and rector of one of South America's largest Anglican parishes, pleaded the case for alternative arch-episcopal oversight to the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon and Chris Smith, a senior aide to Archbishop Rowan Williams during an hour-and-ahalf meeting held May 26 at the Anglican Consultative Council headquarters in north London.

  Posted on May 29, 2005

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• Women's Caucus Plans College for Leadership Development

  The Episcopal Women’s Caucus is preparing to create a "leadership development college," that will prepare women clergy for positions as bishops and rectors of corporate-size parishes, one of a number of new priorities developed during a two-day board meeting last month.

  Posted on May 27, 2005

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• Heavenly Encounters

  Teresa Harrison answers questions about the meaning and writing of icons.

  Posted on May 26, 2005

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