News Updates

News Updates

April 2008

• Memo: Presiding Bishop Subverting Constitution and Canons

  Sufficient legal grounds exist for presenting Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori for trial on 11 counts of violating the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church, according to a legal memorandum that has begun circulating among members of the House of Bishops.

  Posted on April 30, 2008

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• Presiding Bishop Explains Process Used to Depose Bishops for Abandonment

  A variety of appointed experts on Episcopal Church canon law concur with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who does not believe it is necessary to obtain an inhibition prior to holding a vote to depose a bishop charged with abandonment of communion. Bishop Jefferts Schori sent a two-page letter that sets out her understanding of the abandonment canons for the House of Bishops on April 30.

  Posted on April 30, 2008

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• Fort Worth Bishop Accuses Presiding Bishop of Unwelcome Meddling

  The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker, Bishop of Fort Worth, has responded to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who urged a visiting primate to cancel a planned visit to Fort Worth. The Most Rev. Gregory Venables, Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone, was scheduled to address a special convocation in Fort Worth May 2-3.

  Posted on April 30, 2008

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• Presiding Bishop in Dallas: “Have You Been Watching San Joaquin?”

  Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori assured questioners at a gathering in Dallas that a plan similar to the one employed in San Joaquin has already been prepared in case other dioceses attempt to leave.

  Posted on April 29, 2008

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• California Special Convention to Consider Governance Changes

  Delegates to a special convention in the Diocese of California will consider far-reaching structural changes when they meet May 10 at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.

  Posted on April 29, 2008

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• Diocese Asks Court for All San Joaquin Assets

  A lawyer for the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin has asked a Fresno County Superior Court to award it all property and assets now claimed by the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin.

  Posted on April 28, 2008

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• UMC Sides with Diocese in Virginia Property Case

  The United Methodist Church has joined The Episcopal Church in arguing that the state of Virginia's division statute violates the First Amendment.

  Posted on April 28, 2008

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• Archbishop’s Letter to Lambeth Bishops Still Not Sent

  Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams discussed his hopes and called on all Anglicans to pray for the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops in a seven-and-a-half minute video published on the internet on April 23. The video was not related to his forthcoming letter on the Lambeth Conference to the bishops of the Communion, according to a spokesman.

  Posted on April 25, 2008

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• Dioceses of Eau Claire and Fond du Lac to Explore ‘Junctioning’

  Two Wisconsin dioceses are in conversation about sharing a single bishop, according to Bishop Russell Jacobus of Fond du Lac, who reports in his monthly newspaper column that the Eau Claire standing committee had invited him to serve as an assisting bishop.

  Posted on April 25, 2008

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• Second Woman Appointed Bishop in Australia

  The Rev. Canon Barbara Darling has been named assistant bishop in the Diocese of Melbourne. When consecrated May 31 at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, she will become the second woman to be made bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia.

  Posted on April 25, 2008

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