Pittsburgh - Response to Presiding Bishop

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14th March, A.D. 2008
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop
815 Second Avenue
New York NY 10017

Dear Katharine,

In response to the request set forth in your letter of January 15th which
enclosed the certification of the Title IV Review Committee), I state that I
consider myself "fully subject to the doctrine, discipline and worship  of
this Church."

In particular:
1. I have striven to follow the Lord Jesus with all my heart and mind
and soul and strength, all the while relying on God=92s grace to accomplish
what my sinfulness and brokenness otherwise prevent.
2. I have kept my ordination vows -all of them- to the best of my ability,
including the vow I made on 28 October 1972 to "banish and drive away all
strange and erroneous doctrines contrary to God's Word."
3. I have preached and taught nothing but what faithful Anglicans and
mainstream Christians have always preached and taught, with the
exception only that I have supported and encouraged the ministry of women in Holy
Orders.
4. I have been present to all but two meetings of the House of Bishops(out
of twenty-four) during the last 12 years. In those meetings I have clearly
and openly opposed the theological and moral drift of the Episcopal Church,
often in the face of great hostility and sadly, at times, derision.
5. I have made no submission to any other authority or jurisdiction.
6. I have gathered Anglican fragments together from one hundred and
thirty-five years of Episcopal Church division, vastly increasing
understanding and cooperation, though preserving the jurisdictional
independence of all.
7. I have, with the clergy, people and para-church organizations of my
diocese, built missionary relationships all over the world, fielding both
missionaries and resources on five continents.
8. I have faithfully served and shepherded the clergy and people of the
Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh through what has, by God's grace, been
one of its greatest periods of extension and blessing. My intention is to
continue in this call for what remains of my active ministry.

Faithfully in Christ,

The Rt. Rev. Robert Wm. Duncan
Bishop