…events have moved on with ++Jefferts Schori declaring that she has accepted +Lawrence’s renunciation of his bishopness. Here truth gets a little strange as the renunciation wasn’t given but it has been declared to have been given by virtue of public utterances being deemed to be equivalent to formal, written renunciation.
Now events have moved a bit further: a renunciated bishop means a vacant bishopric, so a convention of the Diocese of South Carolina has been called by ++Jefferts Schori, even though it is not her canonical prerogative to do so, that being the privilege of the Standing Committee of the Diocese, which still exists. Naturally, fiction prevailing here, the Standing Committee is deemed not to exist because the entity which is the Diocese of South Carolina is deemed to have disappeared in a haze of smoke created by its decision to distance itself from TEC.