Deputies to a special synod meeting of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy acted with dispatch on Saturday, April 4 as they quickly and unanimously elected new leadership, approved a diocesan budget and elected a provisional bishop. The actions were necessary after a majority of deputies at the 2008 annual synod voted to leave the Episcopal Church and realign with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.
Deputies elected the Right Rev. John Clark Buchanan, retired bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri, as provisional bishop of the Diocese of Quincy. Buchanan most recently served as interim bishop in the Diocese of Southern Virginia.
In his opening remarks to the synod, Buchanan told the deputies and guests that he now “lays claim to your heritage and to all who belong to the Diocese of Quincy.”
[blockquote]In his opening remarks to the synod, Buchanan told the deputies and guests that he now “lays claim to your heritage and to all who belong to the Diocese of Quincy.”[/blockquote]
As long as the heritage of what he speaks extends no further than say, 2003, he’ll do just fine.
I understand that Madame cooed to the local press that it was so unusual for all matters to pass unanimously – yet I’m told by an eye-witness that is was a very controlled affair.
Why does Mrs Schori not opt for peace and reconciliation? I sincerely do not understand.
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The Episcopal diocese of Quincy has a “social network” web page is [url=http://episcopaldioceseofquincy.ning.com/ ]here[/url]. I see that Father Jake/Terry Martin is a member.
It seems that the new “diocese” has one parish, three missions and maybe a “faith community” or two.
Such a small band of liberal progressives. Even with a propped up budget and a sham seal of approval, it will be decades before they reach any strength. But…they don’t have that long. Their message of radical accomodation has earned them a place to be left: with themselves.
Any chance we can have a cease-fire for Holy Week and just post spiritually enriching stories?
I’m sorry, #5, about the last thing you could call either John Buchanan or the Dean, Bob Dedmon, is liberal progressives. Dean Dedmon is pictured next to Bishop Buchanan in the ENS story. I have known each of them for a very long time and they are godly Anglican men with a deep love for the church and a catholic ecclesiology.
There seems to be a sad tendency to write off solid biblical Christians who have real problems with the rending of the church that has taken place. The other week I saw good evangelical friends written off as “revisionist.”
All this is to dismiss people who you might not agree with by pigeon-holing them, rather than engaging with them to see if there is any veracity in their decisions. I am an evangelical who remains a priest of the Episcopal Church not because I love many of the things that have happened, but because this is where my understanding of ecclesiology and Scripture has taken me. There are a good few others who are like me
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+Buchanan was my bishop in West Missouri, twenty years ago. I didn’t know him well, but I do know that he was no revisionist at the time. In fact, he seemed to be a great supporter of Trinity Seminary, in Ambridge. Unless he’s changed significantly, it would be difficult to label him as such. And if I’m not mistaken, wasnt Dedmon+ the Canon to the Ordinary in Tennessee, during a time when it was quite conservative?
Richard, you are right. +Buchanan, of course, was one of those bishops who started the American Anglican Council. He is by no means liberal or “revisionist.” He was once my bishop.
Dedmon was one of the canons of the Diocese of Tennessee under +Bert Herlong. I am certainly more than a little shocked to hear either of them spoken of in disparaging ways by those on this site.
When this “diocese” welcomes a female “bishop” to officiate, I don’t see how one can object to its leaders being labelled “liberal progressives.” Compared to the diocese’s past, such a situation is more liberal, having progressed toward the current norms of TEC.
When that leader is the current Presiding Bishop, whose truly radical views are well known, expressing solidarity with her and her agenda cannot be considered naive loyalty to an institution.
Whether the consequences of their actions are acknowledged by those who collaborate or not, the facts speak for themselves.