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2 Sep 2011, 11:09 am
And the two vestry members appear to have been swept out of their offices by the tide that removed Father Moyer. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 9:59 am
A small group of members remained loyal to ECUSA and the South Carolina Episcopal Diocese and purported to elect a new vestry for the congregation. [read post]
14 Jul 2007, 4:11 pm
Virtue Online reported on Friday that the Diocese has amended its lawsuit to add as defendants a number of individuals who were elected as vestry members in each church after the spit off. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 6:45 pm by Howard Friedman
The court similarly removed two vestry members who supported Moyer from their positions.   [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 6:45 pm by Howard Friedman
The court similarly removed two vestry members who supported Moyer from their positions. [read post]
2 Oct 2011, 7:16 pm
Today the Connecticut Supreme Court upheld the Dennis Canon against a challenge offered by the rector and certain officers and vestry members of Bishop Seabury Church in Groton. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
"  They sought an order against 28 Parishes "to remove from their vestries any persons who cannot demonstrate to this Court's satisfaction that they are capable of and willing to carry out their fiduciary obligations to The Episcopal Church.... [read post]
11 Apr 2015, 11:59 am by Sean Hanover
I was recently asked the following question on an online legal website:I am a member of a Church Vestry in Virginia. [read post]
24 Jul 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
The ACA appointed a new Rector, who then removed several members of the elected Vestry and appointed new members.When Father Kelley refused to vacate the premises, the ACA ... filed a lawsuit against him.... [read post]
30 Apr 2011, 9:22 pm
The suit marks another low point in the desultory annals of litigation brought by dioceses of the Episcopal Church (USA) against their former parishes, vestries and rectors. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 11:13 am
Moyer and the one sitting vestry member was that they must relinquish their parish offices, and not the parish's property. [read post]
20 Aug 2021, 6:58 am by Margaret Wood
I have often heard a story about how the church vestry applied to place the building on the National Register of Historic Places to prevent the Library of Congress from tearing down the church and erecting the James Madison Memorial Building at Third and A Streets SE. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 7:39 am by Jim Martin
One community leadership position involved being elected to the church vestry of Truro parish in 1762. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
  The court said in partThe Parish clearly breached its fiduciary obligation to the Diocese when its Rector and its Vestry disregarded their oath to conform to the Episcopal denomination and instead led the congregation in a vote to disassociate from the Diocese and the Episcopal Church.... [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 5:20 am by Legal Beagle
Documents at Companies house list Lord Gill and his wife as holding interests in ‘Vestry Court’ dating back to the mid 1990’s. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 9:26 am
The following is a statement of Redeemer Parish to the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh upon the Relinquishment of Its Property:May 31, 2012After prayerful consideration, the Vestry of Redeemer Parish has decided that it is not interested in “purchasing” any property from the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. [read post]
8 May 2007, 12:40 am
The court held that in an hierarchical church, a civil court is required to respect the determination by the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese that the defendants-- the Rector, Wardens and Vestry of the church-- had abandoned the Episcopal Church when they announced that the Church would affiliate with the Anglican Church of Uganda. [read post]
4 May 2012, 7:52 am
This is good news for Christ Church, and for its stalwart and beleaguered rector and vestry, as I shall explain below. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 12:27 pm
Just before issuing a final judgment in the case, he held a mini-trial on the issue of whether a two-acre parcel that had originally been given to the vestry of Truro Church went to the vestry of The Falls Church as Truro's legal successor, or whether it had reverted to the Diocese, which during the pending proceedings had quit-claimed it to Christ Church Alexandria. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 3:19 pm
Those documents provide that congregational property is held in trust for the diocese and the Church.Also yesterday the parties reached an agreement that the litigation would proceed only against the congregations themselves, and not against individual clergy or vestry members. [read post]