Monday, December 10, 2007

San Joaquin Diocese Will Continue With or Without Bishop Schofield

http://www.remainepiscopal.org/files/Documents/REPressRelease11082007.pdf

[Remain Episcopal] 10 Dec 2007--There's no such thing as squatter's rights in the Episcopal Church.

That's the lesson Bishop John David Schofield will learn if he follows through with his threat to quit the Episcopal Church and take as many members of the San Joaquin Diocese with him as he can, according to national church officials. Schofield claims that he will still be the diocesan bishop after the Dec. 7-8 convention in Fresno in which a majority of delegates are expected to vote to leave the church with him. But national church officials point out that, ecclesiastically speaking, he will be a bishop without a diocese. He can go, but the diocese remains.

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