Bishop faces discipline
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article31782
- Author
- De Santis, Solange
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2004 April
- Author
- De Santis, Solange
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2004 April
- Volume
- 130
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 2
- Notes
- Bishop William Anderson of Caledonia is facing possible disciplinary action after licensing a former Episcopalian priest in the American diocese of Wyoming. "'The canons of our church state that a bishop is not allowed to interfere in another diocese', said Archbishop David Crawley, metropolitan (senior bishop) of the province of British Columbia and Yukon and Bishop Anderson's superior". "In a letter dated Jan. 28 [2004], Bishop Bruce Caldwell of the Episcopal diocese of Wyoming lodged a formal complaint with Archbishop Crawley against Bishop Anderson. The letter notes that on Dec. 31, 2003, Rev. Hume 'Skip' Reeves of Cheyenne, Wyo., retired and renounced his orders as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA). On Jan. 18, 2004, he started a congregation in Cheyenne: St Peter the Apostle and Confessor. 'Bishop Anderson .. has in fact licensed (Mr.) Reeves and is assuming oversight of the congregation', wrote Bishop Caldwell. Bishop Anderson, in an interview, said Mr. Reeves left the Episcopal church because he disagreed with Bishop Caldwell's approval of the consecration last year of openly-gay ECUSA bishop Gene Robinson. The Caledonian bishop acknowledged that he wrestled with the issue of jurisdiction, he said, but believes that it is Anglicans with more liberal views of homosexuality who are 'playing fast and loose with the canons of the church'."
- Subjects
- Anderson, Bill (William John), 1950-
- Caldwell, Bruce (Bruce Edward), 1947-
- Reeves, Skip (Hume Wixon), 1938-
- Crawley, David (David Perry), 1937-
- Church discipline - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Bishops - Discipline
- Anglican Communion - Dioceses - Boundaries
- Anglican Communion - Bishops - Uninvited visits
- Episcopal intrusions - Episcopal Church
- Jurisdiction - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Jurisdiction - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Alternative episcopal oversight - Anglican Church of Canada
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Wyoming
- Robinson, Gene (V. Gene), 1947-
- Location
- General Synod Archives