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South Carolina: withdrawal from Episcopal Church confirmed

South Carolina: withdrawal from Episcopal Church confirmed

Episcopal News Service reports: South Carolina convention affirms decision to leave Episcopal Church

The majority of South Carolina Episcopalians who attended a special convention at St. Philip?s Church here Nov. 17 affirmed actions by Bishop Mark Lawrence and the diocesan Standing Committee a month ago to disaffiliate the diocese from the Episcopal Church.

Those actions took place after Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori restricted Lawrence?s ministry on Oct. 17 after the church?s Disciplinary Board for Bishops certified to her that he had abandoned the Episcopal Church ?by an open renunciation of the discipline of the church.?

On that same day, the Standing Committee announced that the action of the Disciplinary Board ?triggered two pre-existing corporate resolutions of the diocese, which simultaneously disaffiliated the diocese from the Episcopal Church and called a special convention.?

The bishop referred to the special convention as ?the Valley of Decision? during his address and asserted, ?It is time to turn the page.? He referred to attempts to prevent separation of the diocese, and his oft-mentioned issues of theology, morality and disagreement with church canons?

The full text of Bishop Lawrence?s address to the convention can be found here. It is worth reading in full.

The ENS report notes that:

..While the bishop referred to numerous letters of support from church leaders, he did not announce any open offers of affiliation with the Anglican Communion, and he confirmed that for now the separatist diocese will affiliate with no one. In a conference call following the convention, he confirmed that alignment is not on the table at present.

However, during his address, he claimed that ?for now and the foreseeable future, having withdrawn from our association with TEC, we remain an extra-provincial diocese within the larger Anglican Communion.?

Such a designation requires action by the Anglican Consultative Council, which concluded a 12-day meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, on Nov. 7. No action on South Carolina was taken during that meeting and the council will not meet again until May 2016?

Posted by Simon Sarmiento on Saturday, 17 November 2012 at 11:33pm GMT | TrackBack
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Source: http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/005750.html

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