PB Jefferts-Schori speaks in San Diego

By GARY WARTH - Staff Writer
Saturday, April 5, 2008

SAN DIEGO ---- While media attention on the Episcopal Church has focused on a schism in recent years, unity and optimism were the messages Saturday when Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori spoke in San Diego to hundreds of congregants from throughout the county.

"I see a glorious future," Jefferts Schori said, when asked about the Episcopal Church during an afternoon talk at Good Samaritan Episcopal Church in University City.

Jefferts Schori arrived in California last week to attend a convention in Lodi, where last December a majority of the Episcopalians in the San Joaquin Diocese, along with the bishop, voted to leave the denomination and align with a conservative Anglican diocese in South America.

Oceanside, Fallbrook and Rancho Penasquitos also saw congregations leave the San Diego Episcopal diocese, while churches in San Marcos and Vista lost priests who left to join churches aligned with foreign-based Anglican dioceses. the rest