A STATEMENT ON THE ACTIONS OF BISHOP SMITH BY ANGLICAN COMMUNION NETWORK MODERATOR BISHOP ROBERT DUNCAN

In April, a number of Bishops, myself among them, wrote to Bishop Smith expressing our “deepest grief and concern…for those within Connecticut who are now under threat of deposition as clergy, removal as lay leaders, or reduction to mission status as congregations.”
The Bishop’s actions this week in seizing the church property of St. John’s, Bristol, inhibiting the Rev. Mark Hansen and attempting to replace the parish’s elected lay leadership sadly make it clear that our concerns were justified. It would appear now that Bishop Smith has no intention of showing restraint or acting pastorally toward those parishes in his diocese who believe they have no other option but to stand against his move away from mainstream Christian orthodoxy as well as his patent unwillingness to fulfill the clear mandates of the Windsor Report.

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