Fla. Anglican Church Loses $4 Million Property

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[The Christian Post] 14 Apr 2007--An Anglican church in Jacksonville, Fla., lost its church property to the Episcopal diocese in a court ruling earlier this week.

Judge Karen Cole ruled that Redeemer Anglican Church belongs to the Diocese of Florida, which put parish members on legal hold until an official report is issued for review.

"We are naturally disappointed that the diocese ignored the appeals of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Panel of Reference," Redeemer's rector, the Rev. Neil Lebhar, told VirtueOnline, a voice for global Orthodox Anglicanism. "We had hoped that the Primates Communiqué would be taken seriously and honored by the Diocese of Florida."

Anglican leaders from around the world had requested in a February communiqué that congregations in the United States back away from property litigation as they wait on a response from the Episcopal Church – the U.S. arm of Anglicanism – to the communion's moratorium on consecrating homosexuals and blessing same-sex unions. More recently, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Anglicanism’s spiritual leader, had recommended in a letter presented last month to suspend litigation over property.