CANON LAWYERS SAY SUING BISHOPS BY BISHOPS IS "INVENTIVE"
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
7/16/2006

Allegations that four revisionist bishops might bring presentment charges against an orthodox bishop because he has requested Alternative Episcopal Oversight, would require "incredible inventiveness", with one canon lawyer and retired bishop saying that that he was not aware of any canon that could be used legitimately against such a bishop.

VirtueOnline has learned that bishops J. Jon Bruno (Los Angeles), William Swing (California), James R. Mathes, (San Diego) and Duncan Gray, III, (Mississippi) are about to lay presentment charges on the Bishop of San Joaquin, John-David Schofield because they fear he will take his diocese out of The Episcopal Church.

"I have no idea of the canons they could use, but we have seen a propensity of some of our more aggressive bishops to read the canons in very inventive and imaginative ways," said Wicks Stephens, Chancellor of the Anglican Communion Network. "We can only wait to see," he told VirtueOnline.

Retired Eau Claire bishop William Wantland, a canon lawyer and Anglo-Catholic bishop told VOL, "I am aware of no canon that could be legitimately used against him."

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