Eight bishops have accepted an invitation to serve as episcopal visitors consistent with Delegated Pastoral Oversight (DEPO), an initiative approved by the House of Bishops in 2004.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was expected to announce the development during the opening plenary session of the House of Bishops’ meeting Sept. 20-25 in New Orleans, according to the Rev. Canon Charles Robertson, canon to the Presiding Bishop.
Canon Robertson added that Bishop Jefferts Schori conferred with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams about the invitations, which she extended after a process of consultation with bishops in The Episcopal Church. The first two days of the meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams are private.
The TLC article states, [i]Bishop Jefferts Schori’s invitation to the eight bishops seeks to delegate the first of three primary canonical duties of the Presiding Bishop, that of visiting each of The Episcopal Church’s 110 dioceses during each Presiding Bishop’s nine-year term. The Presiding Bishop’s other two principal canonical roles are to “take order†for ordaining and consecrating bishops, and to oversee certain disciplinary actions as needed.[/i] Is this right that she is delegating only her once in a nine-year visit? What about her delegating the other two canonical roles?
BFD. A very small bone – thrown at the 11th hour just as her fiefdom is crumbling…
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY (LOVE). ALAS, THERE IS NO TRUST IN THIS PROPOSED SCENARIO.
WITH NO FAITH! and NO HOPE! and NO LOVE! THERE CAN BE NO TRUST1
JJ
Hmmmmmm………so now we know why Howe has backed off a bit, and also why Henderson removed his name from the letter a week or so ago.
A little late, I would say, definitely a little late.
Since +Henderson has recanted day before yesterday, his prior recantantion of last week, saying that he was ‘on board’ with the magnus opus, it is very hard to determine just where he is on the barbed wire at this time. I just hope he makes no more sudden moves…that might be a mite painful.
Oops, I missed the *second* recantation. I must have seen the story and thought it was another story about the first one.