No poaching

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has written her second public letter in a month asking overseas Anglican archbishops to stay off her turf uninvited. Jefferts Schori calls Uganda Archbishop Henry Orombi’s planned May 14 visit to Christ Church Savannah, in Georgia an “unwarranted incursion” that will lead to “heightened tensions” among Episcopalians and in […]

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has written her second public letter in a month asking overseas Anglican archbishops to stay off her turf uninvited.

Jefferts Schori calls Uganda Archbishop Henry Orombi’s planned May 14 visit to Christ Church Savannah, in Georgia an “unwarranted incursion” that will lead to “heightened tensions” among Episcopalians and in the wider Anglican Communion. Christ Church voted to secede from the Episcopal Church last October.


“I am concerned that you seem to feel it appropriate to visit, preach, and exercise episcopal ministry within the territory of this Church,” KJS writes. “I wonder how you would receive similar behavior in Uganda.”

Late last month, the presiding bishop issued another stern public rebuke to Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Argentina-based Anglican Church of the Southern Cone, who was visiting Episcopalians in Fort Worth, Texas. Led by Bishop Jack Iker, that diocese may follow the Diocese of San Joaquin, Calif., which left the Episcopal Church to join Venables’ province last year.

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