Episcopal Diocese to vote on removing bishop

TRIBUNE-REVIEW ^ | September 13, 2008 | Allison Heinrichs and Bobby Kerlik

[hiho hiho]

Leaders of the Episcopal Church of America will take a vote this week on whether to remove Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan from ministry.

Duncan notified the Pittsburgh diocese Saturday of the vote, which be taken Thursday during a meeting of the Episcopal House of Bishops in Salt Lake City.

Duncan is charged with abandonment of the Communion of the Church, a charge initiated by five priests and 16 lay people from the Pittsburgh diocese, Duncan said in a letter.

The Pittsburgh diocese is scheduled to vote Oct. 4 on whether to secede from the U.S. branch of the Episcopal Church and realign with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone in South America.

Duncan said in his letter that even if he is removed, leaders of the Pittsburgh diocese will carry on with the secession vote. Duncan and his supporters say the U.S. church has become too liberal.

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The potential split stems from the 2003 consecration of V. Gene Robinson, of New Hampshire, as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop. If the Pittsburgh Diocese votes in favor of realignment on Oct. 4, it would be the second in the United States to do so, following the Diocese of San Joaquin, Calif.

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Geez, spitting in the Anglican Communion’s face w/ ‘Bishop’ Robinson is OK, but you are out of communion when you stick with the communion.

Anglicanism started over sexual liscence, and that continues to be its lodestar.