Secrecy Surrounds 9 Bishops as They Gather for Alleged Amicus Brief Violations
Secrecy and Paranoia Surrounds 9 Bishops as They Gather for Alleged Amicus Brief Violations
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
January 7, 2013
Nine orthodox Episcopal bishops have been summoned to meet Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori and a panel led by Bishop Clay Matthews tomorrow at the Diocese of Virginia Roslyn retreat conference center in Richmond to hear charges that they have violated the doctrine and discipline of the Episcopal Church by filing an Amicus brief in support of two deposed Episcopal Bishops in property disputes. Five of the bishops are active; four are retired.
The press have been denied access to the hearings.
The charges are as vague as they are imprecise. Two complaints were filed last year which surfaced at General Convention brought by two bishops, The Rt. Rev. C. Wallis Ohl of the rump diocese Ft. Worth and the Rt. Rev. John C. Buchanan of the rump Diocese of Quincy. These two bishops claim the "Richmond Nine" officially injected themselves, intentionally and without invitation from the bishops exercising jurisdiction, into local litigation, opposing this Church and sister dioceses on core ecclesiastical issues regarding the very identity of other dioceses. They said they wanted the House of Bishops to set the record straight on the polity of the Episcopal Church regarding its hierarchical character.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
January 7, 2013
Nine orthodox Episcopal bishops have been summoned to meet Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori and a panel led by Bishop Clay Matthews tomorrow at the Diocese of Virginia Roslyn retreat conference center in Richmond to hear charges that they have violated the doctrine and discipline of the Episcopal Church by filing an Amicus brief in support of two deposed Episcopal Bishops in property disputes. Five of the bishops are active; four are retired.The press have been denied access to the hearings.
The charges are as vague as they are imprecise. Two complaints were filed last year which surfaced at General Convention brought by two bishops, The Rt. Rev. C. Wallis Ohl of the rump diocese Ft. Worth and the Rt. Rev. John C. Buchanan of the rump Diocese of Quincy. These two bishops claim the "Richmond Nine" officially injected themselves, intentionally and without invitation from the bishops exercising jurisdiction, into local litigation, opposing this Church and sister dioceses on core ecclesiastical issues regarding the very identity of other dioceses. They said they wanted the House of Bishops to set the record straight on the polity of the Episcopal Church regarding its hierarchical character.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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