Quincy Delegates will Consider Separation in November

August 13, 2008
The Living Church

Delegates to the annual synod in the Diocese of Quincy will consider a second and decisive vote to leave The Episcopal Church when the annual meeting of the diocese is held Nov. 7-8 at St. John’s Church, Quincy.

“No formal resolutions have been drawn up or submitted yet,” said the Rev. James Marshall, president of the standing committee, “but I don’t see how it could not happen.”

At the diocesan synod last year, delegates voted by substantial majorities to amend parts of the canons and chose not to elect a slate of deputies for the 76th General Convention to be held July 8-17, 2009 in Anaheim, Calif. With anxiety in the diocese already high over recent innovations to church teaching by General Convention, the recent inhibition and pending ecclesiastical trial of retired Bishop Edward MacBurney has made the national church even less popular within the diocese, according to Fr. Marshall. the rest

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Posted on August 13, 2008