News Updates

News Updates

9/25/2007

• Bishops: New Document Will Preserve Status Quo

  The House of Bishops ended the last plenary of the day on Sept. 24 with an unscheduled private conversation that was extended several times and eventually exceeded 90 minutes.

  Posted on September 25, 2007

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• Bishops Briefed on Lambeth Conference

  The Lambeth Conference of Bishops in England next July will bear a striking organizational resemblance to a recent pan-Anglican consultation underwritten by Trinity Church, Wall Street, last July in Madrid.

  Posted on September 25, 2007

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• Three Added to Chicago Bishop Slate

  Three more candidates have been nominated by petition to the election of a bishop in the Diocese of Chicago.

  Posted on September 25, 2007

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• Bishop Steenson Addresses House, Explains Decision

  The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey N. Steenson told the House of Bishops Tuesday that the bishops’ last meeting, at Camp Allen in Texas in March, was “a profoundly disturbing experience for me.”

  Posted on September 25, 2007

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• The Episcopal Church at Its Best

  Reflections on the Northwestern Pennsylvania consecration. (By John Wesley)

  Posted on September 25, 2007

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• In Closed Session, Bishops Perfecting Response to Primates

  Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and the other members of the joint steering committee of primates and the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) met late into the night yesterday discussing language on the eight or so bullet points which might constitute an acceptable response from Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the primates.

  Posted on September 25, 2007

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