News Updates

News Updates

September 2006

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  • San Diego Diocese Sues for Church Property

    The Diocese of San Diego filed suit Sept. 28 against St. John’s Anglican Church, Fallbrook, Calif., the Rev. Donald Kroeger, and nine church volunteers, according to an online report.

  • Presiding Bishop Critical of Camp Allen, Kigali Meetings

    In a Sept. 28 letter to members of the House of Bishops, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold offered his assessment of the involvement by the Archbishop of Canterbury with the Sept. 19-22 meeting of ‘Windsor compliant’ bishops of The Episcopal Church held at Camp Allen in Texas.

  • Pennsylvania Standing Committee Rejects Bishop's Choice of Chancellor

    Citing a possible conflict of interest during its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Sept. 26, the standing committee of the Diocese of Pennsylvania declined to give its consent to Mary Kohart, the person recently named chancellor by Bishop Charles E. Bennison, Jr.

  • Bishop of San Joaquin Cleared of Abandonment Charges

    The Title IV [disciplinary] Review Committee has exonerated the Bishop of San Joaquin on charges that he had abandoned The Episcopal Church.

  • Global South Primates Trade Accusations of Bad Faith

    The Anglican Province of Southern Africa did not endorse the communiqué issued at the conclusion of a Sept. 19-22 meeting of primates and leaders from the Global South coalition of Anglican provinces, according to the Most Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane, primate, who was present for the first two days of the meeting in Kigali, Rwanda.

  • Pennsylvania Bishop, Standing Committee Face Legal Challenges

    Legal and financial challenges continue to mount in the Diocese of Pennsylvania.

  • Alaska Bishop Reflects on Camp Allen Meeting

    If The Episcopal Church fails to acknowledge that the New Hampshire consecration has precipitated a crisis within the Anglican Communion, it will be ever harder to bridge the widening chasm that is threatening to divide the worldwide association of Anglican churches, according to Alaska Bishop Mark L. MacDonald.

  • Bishop of Minnesota To Step Down in 2010

    Even though he is eligible to serve for another eight years, the Rt. Rev. James. L. Jelinek, Bishop of Minnesota, recently announced he will soon make a formal call for the election of a Bishop Coadjutor for the diocese and resign by mid-2010.

  • Newark Elects Worcester, Mass. Rector as Bishop

    The Rev. Mark M. Beckwith, rector of All Saints, Worcester, Mass., was elected bishop of Newark on the third ballot during a special convention in the see city Sept. 23.

  • Tough Decisions Ahead for Newark Bishop-elect

    The Rev. Mark Beckwith’s experience in urban ministry will help him confront the challenges facing the Diocese of Newark, according to several people who participated in his Sept. 23 election as bishop of that diocese.

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