Bishop of splinter faction conducts service in Ligonier Episcopal church

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | 11 May 2004 | Steve Levin

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Bishop of splinter faction conducts service in Ligonier Episcopal church

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

By Steve Levin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A confirmation ceremony Sunday in Ligonier of 13 adults by a retired bishop of a splinter Episcopal group was a historical first for the denomination.

The Rt. Rev. Daniel G. Cox of the Reformed Episcopal Church performed the confirmation after receiving permission from the church's rector and from the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, the Rt. Rev. Robert W. Duncan Jr.

The service at St. Michael's in the Valley unsettled some members of the Pittsburgh Diocese, who believed -- wrongly -- that it violated canon law of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church USA.

Attorney Charles B. Jarrett Jr., former chancellor of the Pittsburgh diocese, said that Cox's ordination and Duncan's permission for him to perform a sacramental act satisfy church law. Duncan is out of the country and the diocese's assistant bishop was presiding at another confirmation Sunday.

But not everyone was happy about it.

"We are certainly not in full communion with the [Reformed Episcopal Church] and so I do not believe it is appropriate for one of their bishops to confirm," said the Rt. Rev. C. Christopher Epting, the national church's deputy officer of ecumenical and interfaith relations.

"That is not the way we do ecumenical work."

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Note to the casual reader: the Reformed Episcopal Church (REC) originally broke away from ecusa in 1875. It consisted (and still consists) of *very* Protestant conservative Evangelical Anglicans who were not comfortable with the Oxford Movement (resurgence of Anglo-Catholicism) and the Broad Church Movement (which subsequently became the place from which most of the heretics have sprung). Oh, and the real reason Christopher Epting and all the folks at 815 are upset about this is because the REC has come out strongly against the heretical actions of the ecusa leadership.

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Ping.

[N. Theknow]

Personally, I am a proud member of a splilnter group in the ECUSA.

And as such, I intend to be a thorough "pain in the ass" to the heretical bishops who voted to consecrate evil.