The Episcopal Church’s legal battles over property spawned a number of contradictory rulings and judgments over the past few weeks. A Superior Court in Southern California has ordered a breakaway parish to turn over its property to the diocese of Los Angeles; the Virginia Supreme Court handed down a mixed ruling allowing a breakaway parish [...]
The Diocese of South Carolina has been pushed out of the Episcopal Church of the USA. The involuntary secession of the 39,000-member diocese comes as charges have been brought against its bishop, the Rt Rev Mark Lawrence for allegedly “abandoning” the communion of the Episcopal Church. On 17 October 2012 a statement printed on the [...]
The Diocese of New Westminster reports that on July 29 it received payment of $155,000 (£96,000) in legal costs from the representatives of the vestry and clergy of four breakaway congregations that quit the diocese, eventually joining the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). The payment of court costs marks the final chapter in the [...]
A new year has brought new twists and turns to the Episcopal Church’s legal wars. The national church beat back the secession of a West Texas congregation from the Diocese of the Rio Grande, saw reasons for optimism and gloom from Presbyterian property cases in Georgia, Indiana and Missouri, found its lawyer in the Fort [...]
