Presiding Bishop Seeking Quicker Way to Intervene Before Other Dioceses Leave [Episcopal]

The Living Church Foundation ^ | 3/29/2008 | Timothy Roberts

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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori made it clear Friday night that she will direct The Episcopal Church to move ahead to reconstitute the Diocese of San Joaquin and to establish control over church property swiftly. In addition, she said, she intends to begin the process of revising the denomination’s canons to allow it to deal more expeditiously with breakaway bishops.

 

“I expect to see revisions to the canons to deal with situations like the one that you have been living with in San Joaquin for several years,” she said.

 

The Presiding Bishop spoke at a question-and-answer session at St. Anne’s Church, Stockton, Calif., on March 28 after taking part in a service. The first day of the special convention meeting she has called began with an Order of Worship for the Evening With Prayers for Healing. She read the Litany for Healing.

 

Today Bishop Jefferts Schori presided at the opening of a special convention at St. John the Baptist Church in Lodi to reconstitute an Episcopal diocese with the see city located in Stockton. The convention is intended to undo the actions in December at the diocesan convention led by Bishop John-David Schofield of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin. Delegates to that convention amended the constitution and canons to allow the central California diocese to leave The Episcopal Church and join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.

 

A majority of bishops present at a session of the House of Bishops on March 12 voted to depose Bishop Schofield and the Rt. Rev. William J. Cox, retired Bishop Suffragan of Maryland, although questions have been raised about the legality of that vote under church law. The questions were first raised in a Living Church News Service article.

 

Earlier on March 28, Bishop Mark Lawrence of South Carolina and the diocesan standing committee made public a letter asking Bishop Jefferts Schori not to go ahead with the special convention meeting until the issue of the deposition is resolved.

 

The Presiding Bishop said the House of Bishops’ vote to depose Bishop Schofield was proper in response to a question from the audience.

 

“A majority of the House of Bishops voted,” she said. Moreover, she added, any protest of a parliamentary action must be made at the time of the action by someone present at the meeting. “That did not happen.”

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[x_plus_one]

She can have all the church property she wants and she can sell it to the arabs for all the good it will do her.

[xJones]

What strange times we live in. The newly elected head of the historical Episcopalian Church, the Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, is tearing apart what's left of her church, and at the same time, Senator Hillary Clinton is trying to split the Democratic Party because she's not going to lose either.

It may take an Estrogen intervention, but their families and several highly skilled doctors must be brave enough to go in as the intervention teams.

[showme_the_Glory]

It may take an Estrogen intervention, but their families and several highly skilled doctors must be brave enough to go in as the intervention teams.

Hilarious but true.

[gogeo]

It’s all about Girl Power.

[longtermmemmory]

seems she is losing more than she is gainning.

Obviously she is more divider than uniter if she is going to change the rules to a more autocratic form.

Perhaps what is REALLY going on is that they do not have a complete inventory and some of the properties are in seperate corporations and thus untouchable by the leftist sex politics “priesthood”.

[dangus]

I hate to be a downer here, but everything is going fantastically for Bishop Schori’s plans. She’s driving away all the conservatives, and keeping all their money, land, and heritage.