TLC: Bishop Schofield: ‘Not My Wish to Leave’
December 21, 2007

Not long after he was consecrated Bishop of San Joaquin in 1988, the Rt. Rev. John-David Schofield recalls traveling to the Episcopal Church Center in New York City on business and being mistaken for Bishop Calvin Schofield, who was Bishop of Southeast Florida at the time.

“They were expecting this tall, trim, handsome bishop and there was a brief look of dismay when they realized I obviously wasn’t the strapping athletic person they were expecting,” he said laughing at the memory.

Episcopalians have seemingly been mistaking Bishop Schofield for someone else ever since. Even before Dec. 8, when he presided at the diocesan convention, which voted to leave The Episcopal Church and affiliate with the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone, some of his critics accused him of being reckless, schismatic, or even dishonest. the rest