News Updates
News Updates
04/30/2008
Featured
-
Trying to find an article?
News and features from 1995-2001.
-
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
-
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
-
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

