Sober Leadership Retreat Considers Future of Diocese

http://www.pgh.anglican.org/news/local/leadershipretreat052207

[The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh] 23 May 2007--...“We are facing something that we never thought we would face. We thought we would prevail. We thought that what we believed and what the majority of the Communion believed would be provided for,” said Bishop Duncan.

While, diocesan leaders reached no immediate consensus on what course to suggest to diocesan convention, there was a strong sense that the diocese should maintain the direction it set at the diocesan conventions of 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2006, the diocesan convention affirmed the appeal for Alternative Primatial Oversight. In 2005, the convention accepted the Windsor Report. In 2004, it approved the second reading of an amendment to the diocesan constitution that states the diocese will not be bound by decisions of the national church that are “contrary to the faith and order of the one holy catholic and apostolic church.” In 2003, the convention stated that in the approval of Bishop Gene V. Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, “The Episcopal Church has exceeded its authority and departed from its constitution.”