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By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
August 30, 2011

After more than a decade of ecclesiastical infighting and lawsuits, Montgomery County Court Judge Stanley Ott delivered the final blow to the Anglo-Catholic rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, on Monday by saying Fr. David L. Moyer must leave the parish. He also ordered two men to step down from the Vestry. Real and personal property issues were not on the table.

It is the end of a long and bitter battle waged between the Diocese of Pennsylvania, its Bishop Charles E. Bennison, the Standing Committee and Fr. David L. Moyer (AKA Bishop Moyer of the Traditional Anglican Communion). The latter initially fought the bishop charging him with heresy and his failure to uphold a flying bishop arrangement for Anglo-Catholics made under his predecessor Bishop Alan Bartlett.

Moyer has instigated and been dogged by multiple lawsuits for nearly a decade.

The Anglo-Catholic priest first challenged Bennison in 2002 over doctrinal issues and the bishop's betrayal over a flying bishop arrangement agreement he and six other traditionalist priests had with the previous diocesan bishop Allan Bartlett. the rest

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