In Less Peaceful News (see previous post)

The more I think about it, the more I think Rachel Zoll is right. The Episcopal Church is not on the verge of schism, it’s already schisming (not a word? ok, but it should be). The Episcopal Diocese of Georgia filed a petition to Chatham Superior Court November 14 to regain “all real and personal […]

The more I think about it, the more I think Rachel Zoll is right. The Episcopal Church is not on the verge of schism, it’s already schisming (not a word? ok, but it should be).

The Episcopal Diocese of Georgia filed a petition to Chatham Superior Court November 14 to regain “all real and personal property” of Christ Church, Savannah, whose vestry voted unanimously September 30 to place the congregation under the care of John Guernsey, a former Episcopal priest who was consecrated September 2 as a bishop in the Anglican Church of the Province of Uganda.

The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin announced November 16 that the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone has “extended an invitation to offer the diocese membership on an emergency and pastoral basis.”


The announcement comes three weeks before the diocese is scheduled hear the second and final reading of constitutional changes that would delete all references to the Episcopal Church and state that the diocese is “a constituent member of the Anglican Communion and in full communion with the See of Canterbury.”

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