News Updates

News Updates

October 2006

• Southwest Florida Announces Bishop Nominees

  The nominating committee of the Diocese of Southwest Florida has submitted the names of three rectors for the election of a bishop coadjutor in that diocese.

  Posted on October 31, 2006

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• Archbishop Williams Meets With Presiding Bishop-elect Jefferts Schori

  Presiding Bishop-elect Katharine Jefferts Schori met Oct. 27 with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in a closed-door session at Lambeth Palace in London to discuss the state of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion.

  Posted on October 30, 2006

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• Presiding Bishop's Chancellor Threatens Fort Worth, Quincy Dioceses

  On the eve of Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s investiture as the 26th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, her chancellor, David Booth Beers, has written identical letters to the chancellors of two traditionalist dioceses demanding that they change language “that can be read as cutting against an ‘unqualified accession’ to the Constitution and Canons of the General Convention of The Episcopal Church.

  Posted on October 30, 2006

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• On Fourth Attempt, Tennessee Elects a Bishop

  The Rev. John C. Bauerschmidt was elected Bishop of Tennessee on the 12th ballot Oct. 28, but not before one final surprise. After pulling within one clergy vote of the required two-thirds majority in both the lay and clergy order on the ninth ballot, an audible gasp reverberated through the sanctuary of Christ Church Cathedral in Nashville after the 11th ballot when for the second time Fr. Bauerschmidt lost the support of a clergy voter. The closest challenger was the Rev. James L. Burns, rector of Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City. The other candidate was the Rev. Carter N. Paden, rector of St. Peter’s, Chattanooga, Tenn.

  Posted on October 28, 2006

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• Dioceses' Appeal for APO Modified

  The dioceses which appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury for alternate primatial oversight (APO) last summer have modified their demands and no longer seek an “alternative primate” to exercise metropolitan oversight.

  Posted on October 28, 2006

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• FBI Investigating Connecticut Music Director

  Federal prosecutors are investigating the music director at Christ Church, Greenwich, Conn., for allegedly possessing child pornography.

  Posted on October 28, 2006

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• Bethlehem Convention Focuses on 'New Hope'

  Mission and ministry that offer “new hope” were highlighted throughout the Oct. 13-14 convention in the Diocese of Bethlehem. The Church of the Nativity in the see city was host to more than 300 clergy, lay delegates, and visitors.

  Posted on October 27, 2006

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• Fond du Lac to Begin Windsor Education

  The Diocese of Fond du Lac is largely healthy and growing, but it needs to become more fully knowledgeable about the Windsor Report, said Bishop Russell E. Jacobus.

  Posted on October 27, 2006

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• Four Primates Offer to Meet With Dioceses Requesting APO

  The primates of four provinces in the Anglican Communion have offered to meet in November with the bishops, chancellors and standing committee presidents from the eight Episcopal dioceses that petitioned Archbishop Rowan Williams last July for alternative primatial oversight.

  Posted on October 26, 2006

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• Tony Newman

  Music for Life and Health (By David L. James)

  Posted on October 25, 2006

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