Split Church Starts Worships in New Place
5/27/2007
By Kristin Smith
First Coast News

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The Church of the Redeemer is worshipping in its new digs - the Beth Israel Jewish Temple on Baymeadows Road. Beth Israel is accomodating the church as a temporary place of worship.

Last Sunday was the churches last day worshipping in the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. They had to move locations after a state judge decided the Episcopal Diocese of Florida owned the land.Because Church of the Redeemer split from the Episcopal Church, they had to find somewhere else to worship.

The split started about two years ago, when the Episcopal Church appointed a gay bishop in New Hampshire. The Florida bishop ruled in January, 2006, that the dissidents here would no longer belong to the Episcopal Church. the rest