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Scottish archaeologists say they have located the exact location of Scone Abbey, where Robert the Bruce is believed to have been crowned king. The abbey -- founded by Alexander I in 1114 on a site believed to have been sacred for centuries -- was burned during the Reformation. Scone Palace, built in the 16th century and rebuilt in the 19th, survives. "The importance of Scone -- where kings were made and parliaments met -- is only matched by how little we know about the reality of the place," Oliver O'Grady of Glasgow University told The Scotsman. O'Grady, one of the...

Archbishop Greg Venables,Southern Cone to Frank Griswold - May 7, 2004 The Most Revd Frank T. Griswold Presiding Bishop ECUSA Dear Bishop Frank, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. I write in response to your letter of May 5th. Since it has found its way all over the internet, I am constrained to respond more broadly than just in a personal note. With great respect it must be said that considering what you now write in the light of what you have already done brings to mind the old cliche of...

BOLIVIAN BISHOP BAPTIZES, CONFIRMS 330 AT NEW ANGLICAN PARISH IN ATLANTA By David W. Virtue ATLANTA, GA- The Rt. Rev. Frank Lyons, Bishop of Bolivia, baptized, confirmed, received, and reaffirmed over 330 people at two services into Holy Cross Anglican Church, Loganville recently, marking the first time an overseas bishop from the Southern Cone has moved onto US soil to perform ecclesiastical functions, a sign of the growing fragmentation of the Episcopal Church. “They were received into the church as Founding Members,” said the Rev. Dr. Foley Beach the church’s new rector, and a recent refugee from the ECUSA. More...

Archbishop Gomez Expects Discipline for Episcopal Church The Episcopal Church will be disciplined for permitting same-sex liturgical blessings and for consecrating a sexually active homosexual person as Bishop of New Hampshire, according to the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, Primate of the West Indies and a member of the Lambeth Commission, which is due to issue a recommendation later this year. The bishops of Dallas and Pittsburgh were joined by some leaders of the Episcopal Church’s mission community, the Presiding Bishops of two “continuing” Anglican churches and the Primate of the Southern Cone at a conference in Nassau, Bahamas, March 30-April...

NON-COMMUNION BISHOPS INVITED TO THE BAHAMAS Anglicans United has reported that the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, Archbishop of the Bahamas and West Indies, and the Most Rev. Gregory Venables, new Archbishop of the Southern Cone, have invited the Presiding Bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church and the Anglican Province of America, to meet with them in the Bahamas to discuss the way forward for faithful, orthodox Anglicanism on the American Shore in a meeting to take place from 27 March to 2 April. In addition to the two Presiding Bishops, three other REC bishops have been invited to attend and...