In a property dispute stemming from a rift with the Episcopal Church of America, the attorney for All Saints Anglican Church urged New York’s Court of Appeals Tuesday to set aside a previous decision from a lower court that essentially allowed the removal of the congregation from its longtime church building at 759 Winona Blvd. in Irondequoit.
It’s a case that might not be settled until it gets to the U.S. Supreme Court.
During court proceedings Tuesday, parish attorney Eugene Van Voorhis argued that secular state law ”” and not ecclesiastical canon ”” should govern the transfer of property in New York.
“All of the funds that bought the church, built the church, bought the land ”” all was donated by parishioners,” Van Voorhis said in court. “This has to do with legal principles … It has nothing to do with doctrinal disputes.”
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