News Updates

News Updates

October 2009

• Minnesotans Elect Deputies’ V.P.

  Delegates to the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota’s 152nd annual convention have elected the Rev. Brian Prior as the diocese’s ninth bishop. Fr. Prior, rector of Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, Spokane Valley, Wash., has served as vice president of General Convention’s House of Deputies since 2006.

  Posted on October 31, 2009

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• Dallas Convention Given Wholly to Covenant

  Resolutions and floor debate were scrapped at the Diocese of Dallas' annual convention in favor of corporate discernment on the nature of communion and the Anglican Covenant.

  Posted on October 30, 2009

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• Editorial: Differentiation and Communion

  “Differentiation” is a popular concept among conservative Episcopalians these days, and at a one-day special convention on Oct. 24, voting members of the Diocese of South Carolina produced truckloads of the stuff.

  Posted on October 30, 2009

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• Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh to Leave Longtime Office

  The Pittsburgh diocese led by the Rt. Rev. Robert W. Duncan will soon leave its longtime office space in the Henry W. Oliver Building, which offers dramatic views of Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh.

  Posted on October 30, 2009

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• N.Y. Bishops Protest Education Budget Cuts

  Eight bishops of the Episcopal Church in the state of New York stand united against Gov. David Paterson’s proposed budget cuts for education.

  Posted on October 29, 2009

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• R.I. Convention, Bishop Differ on Resolutions

  The Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island’s 219th convention has affirmed General Convention’s resolutions on openly gay nominees for the episcopate and pastoral blessings for same-sex couples.

  Posted on October 28, 2009

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• W. Kansas Bishop Plans Return to Parish Ministry

  The Rt. Rev. James M. Adams Jr. says he has a ready answer when people ask why he would return to parish ministry after only seven years as a bishop.

  Posted on October 27, 2009

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• Hopeful Signs in Canterbury-Rome Relationship

  The Rev. William Franklin of the Anglican Center in Rome sees the humor in some of the exaggerations in coverage of the Vatican’s plans regarding disaffected Anglicans. “It doesn’t feel like warring armies here in Rome,” he said.

  Posted on October 27, 2009

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• Global South Primates Respond to Vatican Initiative

  Responding to the Vatican’s announcement for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans, the six-member Global South Primates Steering Committee is urging Anglicans remain Anglicans and that the Archbishop of Canterbury help them do so.

  Posted on October 26, 2009

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• S.C. Distances Itself from Episcopal Bodies

  The voting margins were huge on Saturday as a special convention of the Diocese of South Carolina approved four resolutions supported by the diocesan bishop, the Rt. Rev. Mark Joseph Lawrence.

  Posted on October 24, 2009

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