News Updates

News Updates

March 2006

• Claiming the Blessing Announces Convention Objectives

  Representatives from Integrity and Claiming the Blessing intend to make their presence known during the 75th General Convention.

  Posted on March 30, 2006

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• Former Episcopal Congregations Pledge Cooperation

  Clergy and lay leaders from 63 Anglican congregations formerly affiliated with the Episcopal Church have agreed to work together to build a biblical, missionary and united movement of Anglicans in North America.

  Posted on March 30, 2006

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• Church Welcomes Kenyan Statement on AIDS

  Episcopal Church leaders have welcomed the Primate of Kenya’s March 15 statement on HIV/AIDS saying it was a step forward in the listening process recommended by the 1998 Lambeth Conference and affirmed by Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold in his February letter to the primates.

  Posted on March 30, 2006

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• Bishop Bennison: Diocese Ready to Heal

  The Rt. Rev. Charles E. Bennison, Jr., said he and members of his staff at Church House worked hard to build trust and educate members of the Diocese of Pennsylvania during the 140 days that elapsed between Nov. 5 when the annual convention failed to approve a budget and a March 25 special convention, which he described as a victory for the spirit of cooperation and a vote of confidence in his leadership.

  Posted on March 30, 2006

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• Canon Love Elected Albany Coadjutor

  A former Air Force intelligence officer who has served the same small Warren County, N.Y. parish for more than a decade was elected bishop coadjutor of Albany on March 25.

  Posted on March 29, 2006

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• Prayer Will Undergird Special Committee on Communion

  The special committee responsible for handling resolutions pertaining to the Windsor Report during General Convention will be grounded in prayer, according to the two co-chairs of the committee.

  Posted on March 29, 2006

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• Presiding Bishop Encouraged by Bishops’ Meeting

  Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold told The Living Church he is encouraged that the House of Bishops seemed to be of a common mind by the conclusion of the March 17-22 spring retreat, the last at which Bishop Griswold will preside.

  Posted on March 29, 2006

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• Agencies Focus on Anglican Role in Relief

  The president of Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD), Dr. Robert W. Radtke, met with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams earlier this month to discuss the church’s disaster and development relief agency’s work in the developing world.

  Posted on March 28, 2006

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• New Suffragan for West Texas

  The Diocese of West Texas elected the Rev. David Mitchell Reed, 49, to be its suffragan bishop March 25 at a special convention at TMI-The Episcopal School in San Antonio.

  Posted on March 28, 2006

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• Bishop of Chicago to Resign in 2007

  The Bishop of Chicago, the Rt. Rev. William D. Persell, announced his intention to resign his office in the fall of 2007 upon the consecration of his successor. In a letter sent March 27 to clergy and congregations, Bishop Persell said his decision is motivated by his age, his more than three decades of ordained ministry, and health considerations.

  Posted on March 28, 2006

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