Citing Deposition Threat, Pittsburgh Moves Up Diocesan Convention

June 13, 2008

Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh announced in a letter to all clergy and lay deputies that the diocese’s annual convention has been moved to Oct. 4, about one month earlier than in previous years.

“The date and place of the annual convention having been previously set, I am announcing this change under the provisions of Article II, Section 2, of the constitution of the diocese,” Bishop Duncan wrote. “The expressed threat of deposition of the diocesan bishop at a September meeting of the House of Bishops is the ‘sufficient cause’.” the rest