News Updates

News Updates

November 2007

• Executive Council Officers Address Bishops’ Concerns

  Civil litigation is the only recourse available when the canons of The Episcopal Church are not honored, according to two officers of Executive Council who recently wrote to a group of retired bishops.

  Posted on November 29, 2007

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• Committee: Church Turnaround Strategy Needed

  Declining Church attendance, low morale at the Episcopal Church Center and reports of conflict from an increasing number of congregations are evidence of the need to develop and implement a turnaround strategy, according to an interim report released by the Committee on the State of the Church.

  Posted on November 29, 2007

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• Episcopalians, Other Christians Ask Muslims for Forgiveness

  Seven bishops and other Episcopal leaders joined with a number of influential Christian leaders in signing a letter asking Muslims to forgive Christians.

  Posted on November 29, 2007

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• President Ford’s Former Rector to Aid Defense Department

  The Rev. Robert Certain, who retired as rector of St. Margaret’s Church in Palm Desert, Calif., earlier this year, has been nominated to the federal Defense Health Board. In January, Fr. Certain preached at the funeral of President Gerald R. Ford, who was a parishioner at St. Margaret’s.

  Posted on November 28, 2007

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• Brazilian Churches Agree on Mutual Recognition of Baptism

  The Anglican Church of Brazil was one of five signatories to an ecumenical document which mutually recognizes the validity of baptism among five branches of the Christian faith.

  Posted on November 27, 2007

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• Second Canadian Bishop Joins Southern Cone

  A second bishop has left the Anglican Church of Canada and, in a related development, the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone recently extended an invitation to Canadian Anglicans “in serious theological dispute” with their dioceses and or the national church.

  Posted on November 27, 2007

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• Bishop Wolfrum, Retired Colorado Suffragan, Dies

  The Rt. Rev. William Harvey “Dub” Wolfrum, Bishop Suffragan of Colorado from 1981 to 1991, died Nov. 24 after becoming ill on Thanksgiving Day. He was 81.

  Posted on November 26, 2007

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• 'Positive Response' from Canterbury for Fort Worth

  Bishop Frank Lyons of Bolivia, a guest at the Diocese of Fort Worth’s annual convention, told delegates and visitors that Archbishop Gregory Venables had “received a positive response” from Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams last September when he informed Archbishop Williams that his province would likely extend a formal invitation to Fort Worth and other U.S. dioceses.

  Posted on November 21, 2007

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• Bishop Lipscomb to Leave Episcopal Church for Rome

  The Rt. Rev. John B. Lipscomb, Bishop of Southwest Florida from 1997 until he stepped down Sept. 15, announced Tuesday (Nov. 20) that he has sent a letter to the Presiding Bishop asking that he be released from his ordination vows in order to leave The Episcopal Church and become a Roman Catholic.

  Posted on November 21, 2007

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• Trial Portion of Virginia Case Ends Early

  The trial phase of the case involving 11 Virginia congregations where the majority voted to leave The Episcopal Church last year ended Nov. 20, a day ahead of schedule, after lawyers for both sides agreed not to call an expert witness on Wednesday.

  Posted on November 20, 2007

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