Caution, and joy, at election
Date: June 23

The Bishop of Quincy has called upon American Anglo-Catholics to hold fast and not quit the Church following the election of a woman Presiding Bishop. However, traditionalist dioceses have begun formal application to Lambeth for “immediate” archiepiscopal oversight following the election of the Katherine Jefferts Schori as the 26th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church. On June 19, Bishop Jack Iker of Forth Worth informed the US Church’s House of Bishops that his diocese had appealed to Lambeth for “immediate alternative Primatial oversight and Pastoral Care following the election of Katharine Jefferts Schori as Presiding Bishop.”

The bishops of San Joaquin and Quincy told The Church of England Newspaper that their dioceses were likely to join Fort Worth in its application as soon as their standing committees had an opportunity to meet. Traditionalist leaders were at immediate loggerheads with the new Presiding Bishop following her statement that opponents of the ordination of women needed education in the “heresy of Donatism”. the rest