Saturday, January 19, 2008

Episcopal Headquarters Takes Steps to Remove Conservative Bishops

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/103-52.0.html

[Christianity Today] 19 Jan 2008--Three conservative bishops of the Episcopal Church are under fire from the church's national leaders and are being threatened with dismissal for seeking to pull their dioceses out of the church in protest of its leftward drift.

The attempted purge of conservative bishops Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, Jack L. Iker of Fort Worth, and John-David Schofield of Fresno from Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori marks a new stage in the battle over church doctrine and discipline that has threatened to split the Episcopal Church since the hotly contested 2003 consecration of a non-celibate gay priest as bishop of New Hampshire.

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