Special Convention for provincial diocese today in South Carolina
[Ed. Note: This weekend has a Charleston, South Carolina chocked full of adventure and spiritual intrigue. Mere Anglicanism is ending Saturday afternoon after its usual two day seminar; and the provincial diocese is hosting the Presiding Bishop and President, House of Deputies to choose a new bishop and elect committees to run that entity. Apparently, the Episcopal News Service article on this meeting was removed from the website after the temporary restraining order went into effect late on Thursday. Prior to the court order, the meeting was posted as Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina's organizational meeting. The court affirmed that the real Diocese of South Carolina is affiliated with the Rt. Rev. Mark Lawrence. Touché, TEC! Cheryl M. Wetzel]
From Barbara Gautier’s excellent email blog : sjbjgauthier@yahoo.com
January 26, 2013
ECUSA/TEC:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/notice/presiding-bishop-chair-special-meeting-episcopal-diocese-south-
carolina— Apparently, that court order forbidding TEC to appropriate the name “Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina” went into effect immediately. This is a cached copy of the ENS article which had posted information about Saturday’s special meeting to elect a provisional bishop for the TEC loyalist group:
Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori will celebrate and preach at Eucharist at 9:30 am. The special meeting follows; the slated agenda items include the election of the Rt. Rev. Charles Glenn vonRosenberg as Provisional Bishop and then the election of clergy and lay people to serve in diocesan leadership positions.
Among the invited guests to the special convention are the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies; Angela Daniel of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina and President of Province IV; Bishop John C. Buchanan, Diocese of Quincy; Bishop Dabney Smith, Diocese of Southwest Florida; Bishop Andrew Waldo, Diocese of Upper South Carolina; and Bishop George D. Young, III, Diocese of East Tennessee
The special meeting was called following the announcement by the former bishop and some diocesan elected leaders that they were no longer affiliated with the Episcopal Church. The Presiding Bishop accepted the former bishop’s renunciation on December 5, 2012.
The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina is composed of 24 counties in eastern South Carolina. Currently, nearly two dozen parishes and missions and six worship communities have indicated their intent on remaining with the Episcopal Church; others are expected to attend the special convention.
Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina
Grace Episcopal Church
That article has now been removed from the ENS website and all you will get is a “page not found” notice.
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2013/01/24/south-carolina-court-temporarily-restrains-use-of-diocesan-names-seal/ — ENS has now repackaged and rebooted the information about today’s special meeting:
Goodstein’s Jan. 23 order made clear that the restraining order applies only to the names and seal, and not the other matters alleged in the suit. The judge said in the order that a hearing was needed because the group of people who opposed Lawrence’s departure from the Episcopal Church has “allegedly and repeatedly” been using the names and the diocesan seal, “including those so similar that they are perceived to be the Diocese of South Carolina.”
“This use has the clear ability to cause extraordinary confusion over the corporate identity of The Diocese of South Carolina,” she wrote.
The judge noted that the plaintiffs are concerned that a group of people who want to remain in the Episcopal Church plan to hold a meeting Jan. 26 at Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston. That gathering “could intentionally affect the corporate status of those uninformed that the actors are not, in reality, the corporation” known as the Diocese of South Carolina.
That meeting is meant, according to a notice issued Dec. 13 by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, to elect and install a provisional bishop and other lay and clergy leaders, consider resolutions dealing with “recent purported amendments to the Constitution and canons of the diocese” and any other matters “that may be properly brought” to the meeting.
Retired Diocese of East Tennessee Bishop Charles vonRosenberg is expected to be nominated as the provisional bishop during the Jan. 26 meeting.
It is anticipated that the group meeting that day may choose a temporary name under which to conduct its business and operate at least during the time until the Feb. 1 hearing.
From Barbara Gautier’s excellent email blog : sjbjgauthier@yahoo.com
January 26, 2013
ECUSA/TEC:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/notice/presiding-bishop-chair-special-meeting-episcopal-diocese-south-
carolina— Apparently, that court order forbidding TEC to appropriate the name “Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina” went into effect immediately. This is a cached copy of the ENS article which had posted information about Saturday’s special meeting to elect a provisional bishop for the TEC loyalist group:
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will convene and chair a special meeting of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina Convention on January 26 at Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC.
Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori will celebrate and preach at Eucharist at 9:30 am. The special meeting follows; the slated agenda items include the election of the Rt. Rev. Charles Glenn vonRosenberg as Provisional Bishop and then the election of clergy and lay people to serve in diocesan leadership positions.
Among the invited guests to the special convention are the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies; Angela Daniel of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina and President of Province IV; Bishop John C. Buchanan, Diocese of Quincy; Bishop Dabney Smith, Diocese of Southwest Florida; Bishop Andrew Waldo, Diocese of Upper South Carolina; and Bishop George D. Young, III, Diocese of East Tennessee
The special meeting was called following the announcement by the former bishop and some diocesan elected leaders that they were no longer affiliated with the Episcopal Church. The Presiding Bishop accepted the former bishop’s renunciation on December 5, 2012.
The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina is composed of 24 counties in eastern South Carolina. Currently, nearly two dozen parishes and missions and six worship communities have indicated their intent on remaining with the Episcopal Church; others are expected to attend the special convention.
Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina
Grace Episcopal Church
That article has now been removed from the ENS website and all you will get is a “page not found” notice.
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2013/01/24/south-carolina-court-temporarily-restrains-use-of-diocesan-names-seal/ — ENS has now repackaged and rebooted the information about today’s special meeting:
Goodstein’s Jan. 23 order made clear that the restraining order applies only to the names and seal, and not the other matters alleged in the suit. The judge said in the order that a hearing was needed because the group of people who opposed Lawrence’s departure from the Episcopal Church has “allegedly and repeatedly” been using the names and the diocesan seal, “including those so similar that they are perceived to be the Diocese of South Carolina.”
“This use has the clear ability to cause extraordinary confusion over the corporate identity of The Diocese of South Carolina,” she wrote.
The judge noted that the plaintiffs are concerned that a group of people who want to remain in the Episcopal Church plan to hold a meeting Jan. 26 at Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston. That gathering “could intentionally affect the corporate status of those uninformed that the actors are not, in reality, the corporation” known as the Diocese of South Carolina.
That meeting is meant, according to a notice issued Dec. 13 by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, to elect and install a provisional bishop and other lay and clergy leaders, consider resolutions dealing with “recent purported amendments to the Constitution and canons of the diocese” and any other matters “that may be properly brought” to the meeting.
Retired Diocese of East Tennessee Bishop Charles vonRosenberg is expected to be nominated as the provisional bishop during the Jan. 26 meeting.
It is anticipated that the group meeting that day may choose a temporary name under which to conduct its business and operate at least during the time until the Feb. 1 hearing.
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