I knew him well and liked him very much. Richard was very liberal, but a liberal who welcomed conservatives into the diocese. He loved the church. The lowest point of my ordained ministry was the Diocesan Convention in El Camino Real following his “firing”. He received truly shocking treatment from the Standing Committee of the Diocese. May he rest in peace.
I’d like to affirm Ed’s comments. Bp Shimpfky was very fair in handling issues around the Province VIII, of which he was President for awhile. I provided him with such an opportunity with my complaint regarding the boycott by the provincial youth ministry council of meeting in San Joaquin due to women’s ordination, or the lack of it, through Bp Schofield’s ministry. He agreed the boycott was inequitable to the youth, and also to those laity and clergy who were actually in favor of women’s ordination in the diocese, and that none should be refused access to provincial gatherings. Unfortunately, that’s as far as we got on the matter, as +Browning didn’t see the inequity.
And he was amazingly capable of remembering people, or at least with me. After our first visit, even though not a priest in his diocese, he remembered me by sight in every later encounter.
Strength and peace to his family.
Bishop Shimpfky could only be blamed for part of the 2002 through 2009 experience in El Camino Real during which the diocese lost 20.8 percent of Members, lost 25.3 percent of ASA, and lost 19.2 percent of Plate & Pledge (inflation adjusted). I rnked them at 81 of 95 dioceses considered. BUT, the most shocking stats for 2002 through 2009 were the loss of 66.1 percent of Infant Baptisms and the loss of 56.6 percent of Marriages. One must grasp that these losses took place oveer just SEVEN YEARS!!!! In 2009, the diocese was down to 75 Marriages; not even two per church. Statmann
There were hardly any conservatives in that diocese by 2002. The Bishop was of the same stuff of those that elected him. Both Bishops have been ridden out of town on a rail. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen to Mary, although there will not be enough folks to lift the rail at this rate.
The good Bishop was always kind and tolerant of those of us who were traditionalists. Prior to his departure, he wrote me a lovely note wishing me well in my new parish, and expressing sorrow over my journey out of TEC. Never once did he believe that traditionalists should be forced out of TEC or be made to do what offended their consciences. I thank God Almighty for his kindness and the gifts that flowed through him to me.
I knew him well and liked him very much. Richard was very liberal, but a liberal who welcomed conservatives into the diocese. He loved the church. The lowest point of my ordained ministry was the Diocesan Convention in El Camino Real following his “firing”. He received truly shocking treatment from the Standing Committee of the Diocese. May he rest in peace.
I’d like to affirm Ed’s comments. Bp Shimpfky was very fair in handling issues around the Province VIII, of which he was President for awhile. I provided him with such an opportunity with my complaint regarding the boycott by the provincial youth ministry council of meeting in San Joaquin due to women’s ordination, or the lack of it, through Bp Schofield’s ministry. He agreed the boycott was inequitable to the youth, and also to those laity and clergy who were actually in favor of women’s ordination in the diocese, and that none should be refused access to provincial gatherings. Unfortunately, that’s as far as we got on the matter, as +Browning didn’t see the inequity.
And he was amazingly capable of remembering people, or at least with me. After our first visit, even though not a priest in his diocese, he remembered me by sight in every later encounter.
Strength and peace to his family.
Bishop Shimpfky could only be blamed for part of the 2002 through 2009 experience in El Camino Real during which the diocese lost 20.8 percent of Members, lost 25.3 percent of ASA, and lost 19.2 percent of Plate & Pledge (inflation adjusted). I rnked them at 81 of 95 dioceses considered. BUT, the most shocking stats for 2002 through 2009 were the loss of 66.1 percent of Infant Baptisms and the loss of 56.6 percent of Marriages. One must grasp that these losses took place oveer just SEVEN YEARS!!!! In 2009, the diocese was down to 75 Marriages; not even two per church. Statmann
There were hardly any conservatives in that diocese by 2002. The Bishop was of the same stuff of those that elected him. Both Bishops have been ridden out of town on a rail. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen to Mary, although there will not be enough folks to lift the rail at this rate.
The good Bishop was always kind and tolerant of those of us who were traditionalists. Prior to his departure, he wrote me a lovely note wishing me well in my new parish, and expressing sorrow over my journey out of TEC. Never once did he believe that traditionalists should be forced out of TEC or be made to do what offended their consciences. I thank God Almighty for his kindness and the gifts that flowed through him to me.