San Joaquin Joins the Southern Cone

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2007/12/8/san-joaquin-joins-the-southern-cone

[The Living Church] 10 Dec 2007--Clergy and lay delegates to the annual convention in the Diocese of San Joaquin voted Dec. 8 on the second and final reading of a constitutional amendment to leave The Episcopal Church and following introduction of a canonical amendment from the floor, convention voted to accept an offer of affiliation from the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.

"We are now members of the Southern Cone," said the person who announced the vote tally from the convention podium. His announcement just before lunch on final day of the two-day meeting met with subdued applause from those gathered at St. James' Cathedral in Fresno, Calif. Throughout the meeting San Joaquin Bishop John-David Schofield had appealed for the majority to show compassion toward the minority in the diocese who do not want to leave The Episcopal Church.