News Updates

News Updates

5/29/2005

• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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