Revisions to Title IV Are Bad Law
Revisions to Title IV Are Bad Law
By G. Thomas Graves III
http://www.livingchurch.org/news/
October 22, 2010
"Every diocese is an independent and sovereign state, held in the unity of the Catholic Church by its episcopate, according to the rule of St. Cyprian." So said the Rt. Rev. Alexander Charles Garrett, the first Bishop of Dallas, on the occasion of the first convention of the diocese in 1895. "The diocese thus becomes the ecclesiastical unit, a full and perfect integer sufficient of itself for all purposes of growth and development."
As treasurer of the Diocese of Dallas, and until recently senior lay member of its standing committee, I have observed that the people of this diocese understand and take seriously apostolic succession, and value our place in the Anglican Communion. We also treasure the special polity of the Episcopal Church as defined in its Constitution by our founding fathers in the shadow of our country's successful war for independence. Bishop Garrett understood this unique polity, describing every diocese as "an independent and sovereign state."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By G. Thomas Graves III
http://www.livingchurch.org/news/
October 22, 2010
"Every diocese is an independent and sovereign state, held in the unity of the Catholic Church by its episcopate, according to the rule of St. Cyprian." So said the Rt. Rev. Alexander Charles Garrett, the first Bishop of Dallas, on the occasion of the first convention of the diocese in 1895. "The diocese thus becomes the ecclesiastical unit, a full and perfect integer sufficient of itself for all purposes of growth and development."
As treasurer of the Diocese of Dallas, and until recently senior lay member of its standing committee, I have observed that the people of this diocese understand and take seriously apostolic succession, and value our place in the Anglican Communion. We also treasure the special polity of the Episcopal Church as defined in its Constitution by our founding fathers in the shadow of our country's successful war for independence. Bishop Garrett understood this unique polity, describing every diocese as "an independent and sovereign state."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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