DEPO: CNY Bp. Gladstone "Skip" Adams assumes episcopal oversight of St. George's in Albany Diocese

Episcopal church's split with conservative office may open doors to gays
By James M. Odato
Sunday, March 25, 2012

SCHENECTADY -— The historic St. George's Church in Schenectady's historic Stockade neighborhood made some notable history on Sunday.

The parish had its first Mass under a new arrangement never before tried in the Episcopal Church in which a unit of a conservatively led diocese breaks away to be coached by a more liberal one.

The goal is to open the church to more ideas, such as allowing gays to become pastors or feel more welcome or the words of the Scripture to be read for modern interpretation.

The congregates of the more than 250-year-old church, a modest stone building near the Mohawk River, did something no other group anywhere in the Episcopal world has done before, according to church leaders. the rest

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