Historic split for U.S. Episcopals

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An entire California diocese of the U.S. Episcopal Church voted to secede on Saturday in a historic split after years of disagreement over the church’s expanding support for gay and women’s rights.
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Clergy and lay representatives of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin, based in Fresno in central California, voted to leave the church, which has been in turmoil since 2003 when U.S. Episcopalians consecrated their first openly gay bishop.
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“We’ve seen a miracle here today,” Bishop John-David Schofield said after the vote. “We are already outside the jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church.”
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Apparently this diocese has been one of only three Episcopal dioceses which do not consecrate female priests.
 
katy said:
Now if they would just return to the Catholic church!!
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Don’t holy your breathe on that one, sadly.

Most of the Anglican/Episcopal Christians in North America who are taking action in response to the apostasy of thier national churches are from the evangelican protestant wing of the groups. They aren’t really disposed to make such a move. In fact, they have allied with the Reformed Episcopal Church in a “Common Cause,” and the REC formed because it wanted to be more protestant than the rest of the US Episcopal church.

That said, these folks are putting up quite a struggle to hold onto the truth they possess. No non-divine Jesus who never rose from the dead for them! A few prayers that they may hold the truth they possess, and grow in truth, would not be misplaced.

As for this split, the 2 other dioceses mentioned above are on the verge of doing likewise. This isn’t a splitting. With Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda and South East Asia in play, it’s a flying apart.

Blessings,

Gerry
 
Gerry_Hunter said:
Don’t holy your breathe on that one, sadly.

Most of the Anglican/Episcopal Christians in North America who are taking action in response to the apostasy of thier national churches are from the evangelican protestant wing of the groups.
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Not the three anti-women’s-ordination dioceses. By and large the evangelical conservatives in the Episcopal Church favor women’s ordination: Pittsburgh, Dallas, etc.

Edwin
 
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