Fort Worth Dean: General Convention is 'Outside the Faith'
07/26/2006

In announcing its intention July 24 to withdraw from the Province 7 regional association of The Episcopal Church, the Diocese of Fort Worth was merely formalizing a deliberate practice that was first embraced some three years ago, according to the Very Rev. Ryan Reed, dean of St. Vincent’s Cathedral, Bedford, Texas, and president of the standing committee.

“We’ve been sideline participants for a long time,” Dean Reed told The Living Church “Whether we chose to be or were put there is a matter of debate.”

The Bishop of Fort Worth, the Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker, and the majority of the diocesan leadership do not believe that God has called women to ordained orders. The Diocese of Fort Worth is also a member of the Anglican Communion Network. After the election of Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as the 26th Presiding Bishop during General Convention, Bishop Iker and the standing committee appealed for alternative primatial oversight to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Panel of Reference. This is the first scheduled meeting of the standing committee since the June 21 conclusion of Convention.

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