Diocese of Rochester: All Saints Anglican Church loses in court
It's ordered to leave property over a dispute with diocese
Sheila Rayam
Staff writer

(September 20, 2006) — IRONDEQUOIT — A state judge has ordered All Saints Anglican Church in Irondequoit to turn over the property and records of the former All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church to the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester.

The Irondequoit congregation has been at odds with the diocese over the Episcopal Church of the USA's 2003 ordination of a gay bishop in New Hampshire. All Saints refused to pay $16,000 that it owed the diocese and had continued to use the building after it was ousted from the diocese last fall.

State Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Fisher handed down a summary judgment in favor of the local Episcopal diocese on Sept. 13. The Episcopal diocese filed a lawsuit March 6 seeking the property of the former All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church at 759 Winona Blvd.

"I think we're all pleased that the court ruled in support of the ministry of the diocese. We have to be stewards of our property," said the Rev. Canon Carolyn Lumbard, a spokeswoman for the diocese. "But it's still a sorrowful thing that we had to take the route that we have had to take." the rest