Court boost for evangelical bishop of Recife

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[The Church of England Newspaper] September 16, 2005--A civil court has backed the embattled evangelical Bishop of Recife, Robinson Cavalcanti, in his fight with the Episcopal-Anglican Church of Brazil [IEAB] ruling that the Province broke canon law. Pernambuco State Civil Court Judge Cátia Luciene Laranjeira de Sá ordered the suspension of a pretended synod called by Suffragan Bishop Filadelfo Oliveira. Even though Bishop Oliveira was acting under instructions from the Primate of Brazil, Archbishop Orlando de Oliveira, the court held he had no authority to void acts of synod or the power to convene synod. Diocesan spokesman the Rev Estevao Menezes stated, “The appeal to the Civil Court was imperative as the Brazilian Church establishment were all members of the same power group that sought to implement an authoritarian control of the provincial administration.