Upper South Carolina calls for cease fire in Charleston

Diocesan standing committee calls upon Presiding Bishop to stop before it is too late

November 12, 2012
By George Conger

The Standing Committee of Upper South Carolina has urged the Presiding Bishop to abort the national church’s legal campaign in South Carolina and wage peace with Bishop Mark Lawrence.

The 2 Nov 2012 letter urging a cease fire in the war between the national church and South Carolina may well be too late to avert a crisis. A group claiming to be the true Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina has formed and through its “transition committee” has announced that they believe the members of the South Carolina standing committee have impeached themselves, and have taken up the legal name and seal of the diocese as their own.

A spokesman for the presiding bishop’s office told a Charleston newspaper that the ecclesiastical authority in South Carolina was now vacant as the bishop had been suspended with intent to depose him for “abandoning the communion” of the Episcopal Church. The presiding bishop no longer recognized the standing committee as the lawful legal officers of the diocese. the rest