The Diocese of Quincy’s governing synod has voted resoundingly to leave the national Episcopal Church.
The announcement came Friday afternoon during the group’s meeting at Quincy Country Club. In the past five years the Peoria-based Diocese of Quincy and some of the other conservative-leaning dioceses around the nation have threatened to leave the Episcopal Church to join other Anglican bodies.
Update: An ENS article is here.
[blockquote] … Southern Cone … also includes former members of the San Joaquin and Pittsburgh dioceses. [/blockquote]
I’m sorry ENS, the Pittsburgh Diocese is still the Pittsburgh Diocese and by the vote margins I would guess the same for Quincy. The rest of the article seems fair.
I’m happy for them. Like a latter-day St Athanasius, of all the old biretta belt only one Catholic diocese remained and now has sensibly moved on.
Not to an Anglicanism where it can say it’s THE authentic voice of its church but to an Anglicanism circa 2002 as divided and non-Catholic as ever. Fine folk, as indeed there are on the other side, but not Catholic.
But better than being squashed by the illiberal liberal Protestants running a church where it doesn’t belong and who clearly want to sue the Southern Cone in North America out of business.
When Fort Worth leaves, the Catholic Movement in the Episcopal Church will be over. (No Catholic dioceses mean no church but a Protestant denomination.) Who’d have thought 50 years ago it would all disappear?
Recently talked to a Greek Orthodox priest of 50 years who went to graduate school at General back then, when even mainstream Episcopal clergy looked Catholicwards and thus genuinely liked the Orthodox and cared what they thought. He went to a reunion recently and still hasn’t got over the big change to unitarianism dressed up (which was always there but not obvious back then). (Back then when the Episcopalians installed a new presiding bishop all the Orthodox bishops in America either would come or send a priest representative. In 2006 none did.)
Well, it was a good run, chaps. Hope the big Catholic churches save the best of the culture.
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Which Dioceses have left and which are planning to that we know of?
So far I think the following have left:
Sna Joaquin
Pittsburgh
Quincy
and I THINK that Fort Worth is considering leaving. Any others yet?
That’s right, Brian.
The significance of all this, especially with a big name like Pittsburgh: Middle America’s had enough.
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Should not all o these dioceses go directly to CCP and ask for inclusion – if that is what one does? That is, should there not be a nucleus forming, a gravitational center that will draw all other free matter into its core? Larry