Monday, September 12, 2011

FAIRFAX, VA: 700 Including 16 Bishops Pack Truro Church for Bishop Installation

FAIRFAX, VA: 700 Including 16 Bishops Pack Truro Church for Installation of New Bishop
John Guernsey becomes first bishop in largest ACNA Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic

By David W. Virtue in Virginia
www.virtueonline.org
September 11, 2011

Declaring that he would be obedient to the Word of God and drive out all erroneous teaching, Bishop John Guernsey was installed as the first Bishop in the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) at an investiture that included 16 bishops from the US and Canada. Canadian Moderator Bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) Don Harvey as well the Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church Leonard Riches and some 50 clergy were also in attendance.

It was not without significance that The NT reading (Acts 20: 17 - 35) included words about those who would come among them "speaking twisted things to draw away the disciples after them".

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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