Milwaukee Bishop Plans Action to Recover Parish Assets

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2009/1/7/milwaukee-bishop-plans-action-to-recover-parish-assets

[The Living Church] 12 Jan 2009--The Diocese of Milwaukee will sue the congregation of St. Edmund’s Church, Elm Grove, in order to ensure that the church property remains available for worship by Episcopalians, said the Rt. Rev. Steven Miller, Bishop of Milwaukee.

In a letter dated Jan. 4, Bishop Miller wrote that he had been “discourteously rebuffed” when he sought to meet with the parish leadership on several occasions during the past month and that he saddened by the decision made by some members of St. Edmund’s to “disaffiliate from a diocese where their theological convictions are respected.”

Several published reports announced that a substantial percentage of the congregation had voted to disaffiliate, the first such congregation in the Diocese of Milwaukee.