A historic Anglican chapel damaged in Canterbury’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake was hastily deconsecrated before being torn down.
The chapel, at Christchurch’s Churchill Court aged care facility, suffered irreparable damage in Saturday’s devastating quake.
Bishop Victoria Matthews said she had almost no warning that the chapel had to be demolished.
That is so sad.
But not as sad as the Binghamton, NY church that TEC sold to an Islamic group for a fraction of its assessed value rather than sell it at full price to the Anglican community who TEC forced out of it.
A shame some bishops couldn’t be hurriedly deconsecrated and tor-, er, pensioned off after the earthquakes they have caused. 😉