Irondequoit Church Defies Diocese
by Seth Voorhees
Published Nov 21, 2005

Two days after Rochester's Episcopal bishop declared All Saints Church extinct, he came by to pick up the keys to the building Monday. That didn't happen.

“We did not bring the keys to the parish, or the church,” attorney Raymond Dague told Bishop Jack McKelvey, as they stood outside the Irondequoit church. “We will not be turning them over to you today, or at any time.”

Parishioners of All Saints Episcopal Church have sung hymns and said their prayers in the same place since 1927. But a difference in philosophy threatens to shut the parish down.

All saints owes the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester $16 thousand dollars -- money the church refused to pay because the diocese and Episcopal church of the USA supported the ordination of a gay bishop in New Hampshire two years ago.

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