Diocese of Pittsburgh Preparing Vigorous Defense of APO Request
1/29/2007

The Diocese of Pittsburgh has released a document detailing how its request for alternate primatial oversight (APO) fits in with its long-term strategy which includes having the “alternative primate convene an organizing convention for the purpose of forming a permanent constituent Anglican body in the U.S.”

The document was given to several Global South primates and discussed during a November meeting in Virginia with several bishops and other leaders of the Anglican Communion Network.

“As we await clarity regarding the consequences of the recent theological disputes between much of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, all in the diocese need to know that we will remain who we are and where we are,” said Pittsburgh Bishop Robert W. Duncan in an article published on the diocesan website. “We have no plans to be anything but the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh as we seek spiritual oversight from a primate committed, as we are, to the historic faith and order of the church catholic.” the rest