The Clock Is Ticking
Commentary by Robin G. Jordan
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

On Saturday December 8, 2007 the Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin made a momentous decision. The delegates voted to drop every reference to The Episcopal Church from the Diocese’s Constitution and to succeed [sic] from The Episcopal Church. They placed the diocese under the primatial oversight of the Archbishop of the Southern Cone Gregory Venables. Three other dioceses of The Episcopal Church are considering taking similar action—Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Fort Worth. Their diocesan conventions have already taken the initial steps. Requirements in their constitutions that two consecutive diocesan conventions must pass proposed changes to the constitution keep them from joining the Diocese of San Joaquin. The bishops of all four dioceses have been threatened with deposition and they and a representative sampling of the congregations in the dioceses with litigation. Regrettably these dioceses have not able to coordinate their departure from The Episcopal Church and no additional dioceses have so far shown indications of following their lead. One suspects that the leaders of conservative dioceses are nervously waiting to see what happens to the Diocese of San Joaquin and the other three dioceses before they decide whether they will lead their diocese out of The Episcopal Church.

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