Tuesday, December 20, 2011


QUINCY: ECUSA Denied Summary Judgment:Court Disputes if Church is "Hierarchical"

QUINCY: ECUSA Denied Summary Judgment: Court Finds a Triable Dispute Whether Church Is in Fact "Hierarchical"

By A.S. HALEY
The Anglican Curmudgeon
http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/12/ecusa-denied-summary-judgment-in-quincy.html
December 17, 2011

In a ruling released yesterday afternoon by the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court in Adams County, Illinois, Judge Thomas J. Ortbal denied motions for summary judgment brought by ECUSA and its rump diocese of Quincy, which had intervened to join in ECUSA's counterclaim against certain clergy and laity who held property and funds in trust for the (now missionary) Diocese of Quincy in ACNA.

To my knowledge, this is the first summary judgment motion lost by ECUSA, or by any of its rump dioceses, in their attempts to seize the property of the four dioceses which have thus far realigned with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone and with the Anglican Church in North America ("ACNA").

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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