Bishop Ted Gulick of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky will likely serve as caretaker of a Texas diocese following the decision by that diocese’s bishop and many of its members to leave the denomination for a more conservative Anglican province.
Gulick was nominated by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church to be “provisional bishop” of the Diocese of Fort Worth. If approved at a special meeting of what remains of the Fort Worth diocese on Feb. 7, Gulick would serve until this summer while continuing to lead the Kentucky diocese.
Veni, vidi, vichy.
I thought Sam Hulsey was going to take that job.
+Sam Hulsey was rejected. As was +Larry Maze.
“Rejected?” I think they call that “a discernment process”
Heh.
Yeh, that’s it — the “discernment process” rejected them.
“Take Over” is right.
Interesting that PB Schori has essentially rammed a solid left-winger down their throats after their “Steering Committee” had rejected two suggested nominees previously because Hulsey+ and Maze’s+ actions had linked them too closely with the revisionist sexuality agenda. Gulick’s+ voting record is solid with the revisionist agenda down the line. But the FW TEC loyalists wouldn’t dare reject KJS’s nominee with her present here at their little convention next weekend.
“Bishop” of a soi-disant “diocese” conjured ex nihilo.
Good one #1!
Well, Texans don’t take kindly to someone from Noo Yawk City forcing something or someone on them like this. Perhaps more of the “loyalists” will wake up to what their remnant diocese will become with TEC manhandling it.
Perhaps he should be designated Bishop ‘in partibus infidelium’?
I checked out L. Crew’s voting record tally and Mr. Gulick has a perfect voting record (aside from some absences or abstentions) favorable to “lesbigays” including a vote to consent for Mr. Robinson.
See [url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/bishops/0105.html ]here[/url].
Just read the linked article, which keeps referring to “many” of the Fort Worth Episcopalians leaving with the bishop, which is actually about 80%. The TEC 20% translates to about 1500 average Sunday attendance, half of that in two Fort Worth parishes (All Saints and Trinity). Note: the well-publicized Parker County TEC group should have ASA of 60, at 20% of the three “parent” parishes; it’s running 20.
So here’s my question: what is the presiding bishop “discerning” by bringing someone like Bp. Gulik into an ideologically incompatible situation. I grant the remaining Episcopalians are probably more sympathetic to his views than not, but how many souls can you lose and maintain fiscal viability?
I go back to Bp. Hulsey. I believe he lives here (resident in Trinity parish, if memory serves); he’s Texan. I knew the family some years ago and they were solid Episcopalians: bankers, pillars of the community, reliable church members, and all-around good people. What is the presiding bishop “discerning”?
I think Ms. Schori would have been happy with +Hulsey. It was the North Texas Steering Committee who discerned they were incompatible (there, Ms. Russell, is that better?).
“All your diocese are belong to us”.
The PB is “discerning” that some of these Texans have beaucoup BUCKS, and she’d be foolish to risk losing them. Instead, she’ll snuggle up, and hope the checkbooks will open to the extremist agenda promulgated by the very few congregations staying with TEC in the Lone Star State. Watch: it’s all about the MONEY.