Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh names temporary bishop

Saturday, October 17, 2009
By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has chosen Bishop Kenneth Price, Jr., as its provisional -- temporary -- bishop, and declared its departing, part-time shepherd, Bishop Robert H. Johnson, to be "assisting bishop emeritus."

The diocese is still recovering from a split in October 2008, when a majority of the clergy and laity at its last regular convention voted to leave the Episcopal Church over theological issues. This diocese, which continued with the Episcopal Church, has 28 parishes. The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh (Anglican) has 58 parishes, and is affiliated with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone in South America and the new Anglican Church in North America. Both the Episcopal Church and the Province of the Southern Cone are part of the 80 million-member global Anglican Communion. The Anglican Church in North America hopes to eventually be accepted as a province of the Anglican Communion. The Episcopal diocese recently won a Common Pleas court decision saying it is entitled to centrally held diocesan property, though the matter of parish property remains to be settled. the rest