Saturday, November 08, 2008

Diocese of Quincy votes to leave Episcopal Church

Via TitusOneNine:

Associated Press
4:27 AM CST, November 8, 2008

QUINCY, Ill. - The Diocese of Quincy's governing synod has voted resoundingly to leave the national Episcopal Church.

The announcement came Friday afternoon during the group's meeting at Quincy Country Club. In the past five years the Peoria-based Diocese of Quincy and some of the other conservative-leaning dioceses around the nation have threatened to leave the Episcopal Church to join other Anglican bodies.

At the heart of the controversy has been the Episcopal Church's stand on homosexuality, specifically the 2003 consecration of openly gay Bishop Eugene Robinson of New Hampshire.

The Diocese of Quincy has aligned with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, which covers the southern portion of South America.

The diocese has 24 churches and missions and about 1,800 members in its Quincy, Rock Island and Peoria deaneries.

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