Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Fort Worth Bishop Clarence Pope dead


The second Bishop of Fort Worth, the Rt. Rev. Clarence C. Pope, Jr., has died.

On 8 Jan 2012, the Diocese of Fort Worth announced that Bishop Pope (81) had “died in his sleep overnight” at a hospital in Baton Rouge where he was being treated for pneumonia.

“His wife, Dr. Martha Pope, and members of their family were with him over the past week. Please keep all the family in your prayers,” the diocese said. To read more, click here.

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2 comments:

Robert Ian Williams said...

The Catholic Church exhibited great discernment by not ordaining this man. Did he return to the Episcopal Church in the end, as the funeral service seems to held in an Episcopal setting?

The Anglicanism, Pope loved was the Anglo catholic nineteenth century aberration of ritualism, which we all know is not historic Anglicanism.

JimB said...

May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

FWIW
jimB