Bishop Iker comments on action against Bishop Robert Duncan

Sept. 18, 2008
For immediate release


In business sessions today in Salt Lake City, a majority of those present at the Episcopal Church House of Bishops meeting voted to depose the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. The vote tally is unnofficially reported as 87 yes, 36 no, 4 abstaining. Bishop Iker was not in attendance at the meeting, and he has issued the following brief comment:

In spite of the sham deposition of Bishop Robert Duncan by the TEC House of Bishops, he remains the formidable leader of traditional Episcopalians and loyal Anglicans in North America. Both in his role as Moderator of the Anglican Communion Network and as the lead Bishop in the Common Cause Partnership, Bishop Duncan continues to have the respect of a majority of the Primates and bishops of the entire Anglican Communion, including the Archbishop of Canterbury. In an effort to silence him, this action has only given him greater credibility as the leader of the realignment movement.

The Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker
Bishop of Fort Worth