A Statement by the American Anglican Council in Response to the Inhibition of a Priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky

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[American Anglican Council] September 14, 2005--The Rt. Rev. Ted Gulick Jr., Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, has joined a long line of bishops within the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) who are misapplying and abusing canon law in order to take punitive action against clergy who oppose the Episcopal Church’s actions at General Convention 2003. The Diocese of Kentucky released a statement yesterday announcing that Bishop Gulick has issued an “inhibition” against the Rev. Kent Litchfield designed to prohibit him from performing the functions of his office as priest. The bishop accused Father Litchfield of breaking church [canon] law by “abandoning the Communion of the Episcopal Church”, a provision reserved for clergy who leave the Episcopal Church to join a different denomination or religion, and a step usually accompanied by a renunciation of their Episcopal ordination vows.