ENS: Diocese, Episcopal Church file complaint against those refusing to vacate Bishop Seabury

By Lisa B. Hamilton
July 03, 2008

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church has entered into a suit in support of the Diocese of Connecticut against the former rector and vestry members of Bishop Seabury Episcopal Church in Groton, Connecticut. The motion was granted by Connecticut's New London Judicial District Court on June 24. The Diocese of Connecticut filed a similar suit April 30 in the same court.

Both complaints ask that the court prevent the defendants, who have left the Episcopal Church, from retaining church property. Additional plaintiffs are Bishop Seabury Church and its priest-in-charge, the Rev. Canon David Cannon. the rest

Bp. Andrew Smith seeks church "healing" at Lambeth
By ELIZABETH HAMILTON Courant Staff Writer
July 3, 2008

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Smith is one of the Episcopal bishops who have dealt personally with fallout from the Robinson ordination. Since 2003, the Connecticut Diocese has been at odds with at least six conservative churches that either have sought oversight from another bishop or have voted themselves out of the Episcopal Church entirely.

The diocese recently started litigation against one of the six churches, Bishop Seabury in Groton, after its members voted to join the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, a mission of the conservative Anglican Church of Nigeria, and refused to vacate church property. full story