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15 Dec 2010, 11:50 am
The Episcopal Church has no counterpart to the federal courts. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 8:03 am
The newly incorporated parish thus became a constituent member of PCUSA (which must carefully be distinguished, in this telling of a Tale of Two Churches, from "PECUSA", or [later] "ECUSA" -- the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.).The first church, on joining PECUSA, had declared its accession (agreement) to that Church's constitution and bylaws, or canons. [read post]
4 Dec 2010, 12:46 pm
Now ECUSA, however, following the lead of its Presiding Bishop, has decided that a priest (or even a bishop) who leaves ECUSA to minister in another province of the Communion thereby abandons the Communion -- of the Episcopal Church. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 4:00 am
John’s Episcopal Church, whose congregation was first established in 1702. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 7:50 am
As I predicted some time ago, the Episcopal Church (USA) will go through the motions of considering it, but will refuse to approve it in the end.Thus, what will it mean for the Anglican Communion if it is reduced to defining itself as the Province of Mexico and the Province of West Indies -- with or without the Church of England? [read post]
21 Nov 2010, 8:07 pm
(I believe a course in Church canon law is included in the curriculum at most, if not all, Episcopal seminaries. [read post]
20 Nov 2010, 7:25 pm
The Court of Appeals held instead that the validity of the removal and appointment of a bishop is a matter of ecclesiastical law as to which the determination of the Episcopal Church controls. [read post]
20 Nov 2010, 12:04 am
Board of Education; a founder of the 1st women's law periodical; a cofounder of the National Organization for Women; and the 1st African-American woman priest in the Episcopal Church. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 2:36 pm
First, before and through January 11, 2008, Schofield was the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of San Joaquin; on that day, his powers as Episcopal Bishop were suspended by the national church. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 3:11 pm
It holds that ECUSA's recognition of Bishop Lamb is conclusive as to his position as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin, and to the continuity of that entity "for ecclesiastical purposes", but it goes on to hold that the validity of the transfers of title to diocesan property by Bishop Schofield while he was still the Episcopal Bishop will have to be decided upon neutral principles of state corporate law, and also any relevant governing documents of the… [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 10:51 am
[This series on the history of the revisions made to the Constitution of the Episcopal Church (USA) over the years 1889-1901 is in four parts. [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 2:05 pm
But the Episcopal Church has absolutely no tradition of metropolitan authority, and nor does the Anglican Communion.Instead, what has held those two bodies together over the past years is a commonly derived sense of mission and purpose. [read post]
14 Nov 2010, 9:57 pm
Liberals who maintain that dioceses cannot be independent of the national Church have no way of accounting for the formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America -- another national Church that was formed by autonomous dioceses, which previously had belonged to PECUSA. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 11:51 am
[Note: this is the third post in a series on the history of the changes which were made by General Convention to the Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America beginning in 1889 and finalized in 1901. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 4:45 am
Mark's Episcopal Church in Highland, MD. [read post]
8 Nov 2010, 12:55 pm
(Not the least of these was a proposal to rename the General Convention the "General Synod" of the Church, and to re-title the Presiding Bishop as the "Primus" of the Church. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 11:55 am
The Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, originally adopted in 1789, was completely revised and rewritten, starting on its one hundredth anniversary, in 1889. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 7:57 am
Indeed, Canon Harris has recently taken me to task for my series of posts on the Constitutional Crisis in the Episcopal Church (USA), which in turn is based on my series that examined the question: just how did the Episcopal Church (USA) decide to spend so much money on attorneys? [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 5:52 am
N. from the ordained ministry of the Episcopal Church. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 9:24 pm
"To the extent that we are not paying debt, we are borrowing money to do the ministry of the church," he said.The resolution calls for mortgaging the Episcopal Church Center in Manhattan and securing the rest of the borrowing with unrestricted endowment assets. [read post]
