The possibility that the adjacent Episcopal dioceses of Fond du Lac and Eau Claire could form a new diocese in northern Wisconsin has been laid aside due to "an irregularity" in the counting of the Fond du Lac vote.
The irregularity appears to have occurred in the reporting of the vote of the Fond du Lac lay order.
On Oct. 22, the annual convention of Fond du Lac and a special convention of Eau Claire appeared to have voted to ask the 77th meeting of the Episcopal Church's General Convention next July to approve what is called "junction." The votes in each diocese were cast by orders (lay people voting separately from clergy), and the resolutions appeared to pass in both dioceses. Bishop Russell Jacobus of Fond du Lac and Provisional Bishop Ed Leidel of Eau Claire concurred with the decision. To read more, click here.
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