Fort Worth Leadership Responds to Executive Council Actions
06/19/2007

The adversarial relationship between the Diocese of Fort Worth and the leadership of The Episcopal Church was exacerbated by two decisions made by Executive Council during their June 11-14 meeting, according to a June 19 statement issued jointly by the Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker, Bishop of Fort Worth, and the diocesan standing committee.

During its meeting in Parsippany, N.J., Executive Council rejected a pastoral scheme proposed by the primates last February in response to a request for alternate primatial oversight made by seven dioceses. In Resolution NAC-023, Council also declared “null and void” amendments made by four dioceses Fort Worth, Pittsburgh, Quincy and San Joaquin – qualifying their accession to the constitution and canons of the General Convention.

“That the council would attempt to interfere now, nearly 20 years after this diocese first amended its constitution, is evidence of an illegitimate magisterial attitude that has emerged in the legislative function of TEC,” states a release signed by Bishop Iker and the Very Rev. Ryan Reed, president of the standing committee. the rest