Two More Dioceses Oppose Depositions

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/5/27/two-more-dioceses-oppose-depositions

[The Living Church] 28 May 2008--The bishop and standing committees of two more dioceses have joined with the dioceses of South Carolina and Western Louisiana to formally protest the means by which the House of Bishops removed two of its members from the ministry in March.

Bishop Peter Beckwith of Springfield and the standing committee of that diocese approved a resolution on May 22 calling on Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in part “to acknowledge publicly that the depositions of bishops [John-David] Schofield and [William] Cox were not validly procured, and, should it be their desire to continue to seek depositions in these questionable circumstances, to revisit this issue at a future meeting of the House of Bishops, conducting any further proceedings in accordance with the clear language of canon.”