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News Updates

September 2006

• 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.

  Posted on September 29, 2006

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• 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.

  Posted on September 28, 2006

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• 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.

  Posted on September 28, 2006

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• 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.

  Posted on September 28, 2006

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• 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.

  Posted on September 28, 2006

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• Pennsylvania Bishop, Standing Committee Face Legal Challenges

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

  Posted on September 27, 2006

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• 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.

  Posted on September 26, 2006

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• 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.

  Posted on September 26, 2006

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• 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.

  Posted on September 26, 2006

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• 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.

  Posted on September 25, 2006

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