Virginia court rules against diocese in church property cases: Church deposes dissenting bishop
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article39706
- Author
- Staff
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2008 May
- Volume
- 134
- Issue
- 5
- Page
- 3
- Notes
- "A judge in Virginia ruled April 3 [2008] that it was appropriate for 11 Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) congregations to file property claims under a portion of Virginia state law that is triggered when there is a so-called 'division' of a church or religious society". "In other news, the U.S. house of bishops, meeting at Navasota, Tex. from March 7-12 [2008] voted to depose, or remove from office, Bishop John-David Schofield of the central California diocese of San Joaquin, after the diocese voted last December [2007] to leave the Episcopal Church and align with the South American Province of the Southern Cone. On March 29 [2008], Episcopalians remaining loyal to the church held a convention in Lodi, Calif., that accepted Bishop Jerry A. Lamb as provisional bishop until an episcopal election can be held". "The house of bishops also voted to depose retired bishop William Cox, suffragan of the diocese of Maryland, who also joined the Southern Cone and ordained two priests and a deacon in 2005 at a Kansas church that then left the Episcopal Church. The bishops also learned that Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, a gay man whose election in 2003 was a major factor in the church's division, will not receive a full invitation to July's [2008] Lambeth Conference in England, a once-per-decade gathering of all Anglican bishops".
- Subjects
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Virginia - Trials, litigation, etc.
- Church and state - United States - Episcopal Church
- Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA)
- Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America
- Episcopal Church. House of Bishops (2008 : Navasota, Tex.)
- Schofield, John-David (John-David Mercer), 1938-2013
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of San Joaquin
- Cox, William J. (William Jackson), 1921-
- Robinson, Gene (V. Gene), 1947-
- Lambeth Conference, 2008
- Location
- General Synod Archives