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Posted on 04/01/2004 9:24:56 AM PST by ahadams2
US plan rejected
Number: 5711 Date: April 1,
Traditionalist Episcopalians have rejected a new plan for episcopal oversight put forward by the House of Bishops last week.
The US Church’s leading traditionalist groups, Anglicans United, American Anglican Council (AAC), Forward in Faith, and the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes (NACDP) have all repudiated a proposal for ‘Delegated Pastoral Episcopal Oversight’ (DEPO). Critics say that it does not meet the strictures for an “adequate provision for Episcopal oversight’ called for by the Primates' October 15 statement.
The DEPO plan requires a congregation to enter a lengthy process of “reconciliation” with its bishop who has the absolute right to decide whether or not to grant alternative oversight and to decide when oversight will take place and who will carry out the oversight.
The Rev Canon David Roseberry, rector of Christ Church, Plano Texas and leading member of the AAC and NACDP, argued, “This plan cannot work.”
“It is a lengthy, cumbersome, tedious distraction from the real work of any parish: making disciples and preaching the gospel. For example, by some counts, it could take two to three years to get a bishop to come for confirmations! It is an imposition, literally, of an elaborate and tortuous process intentionally designed to wear “dissident” churches down.”
The House of Bishops' meeting began badly for conservatives and worsened as days progressed. Presiding Bishop Frank T Griswold in his opening remarks set the tone for the week telling the bishops that Gene Robinson, the “gay” bishop of New Hampshire, had “borne all the pain” since the Church’s General Convention and obliquely chastised conservatives for their unwillingness to conform to the mind of the wider American Church.
On the penultimate day of the meeting the Bishops endorsed a statement condemning five retired US bishops and a Brazilian diocesan for performing confirming 110 Episcopalians from six Northern Ohio congregations on Mar 14 without the knowledge of Bishop Clark Grew of Ohio.
The bishops noted that they would not discipline the Ohio six, but called the actions, “discourteous, disruptive and a willful violation of our Constitution and Canons.”
The Brazilian House of Bishops, however, rejected a call by their Primate, the Most Rev Orlando Santos de Oliveira, to discipline the Bishop of Recife, the Rt Rev Robinson Cavalcanti for his part in the confirmations.
The Bishops’ Chamber of the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil (IEAB) ruled on Mar 23 that Bishop Cavalcanti had not violated the constitutions or canons of the Brazilian Church by performing Episcopal acts outside of his diocese without the permission of the local ordinary.
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