The Rt. Rev. Julian Dobbs, acting archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, has sued the Rt. Rev. Derek Jones, former head of the denomination\u2019s chaplaincy jurisdiction, in federal court for defamation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bishop Dobbs\u2019 lawsuit was filed on February 17 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and claims<\/a> that Bishop Jones repeatedly made false public statements about Dobbs\u2019 previous handling of two financial matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jones and his independent chaplaincy jurisdiction, which announced<\/a> its departure from the ACNA last September, allegedly \u201cknew or recklessly ignored\u201d that investigations into the two matters had found no wrongdoing by Dobbs, but made the statements anyway, according to the filing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDefendants have made these false assertions repeatedly in the public record \u2026 in an all-out campaign to make the community, especially the Anglican faithful in North America and abroad, view Bishop Dobbs and other leaders within the ACNA (and, of course, by extension the ACNA) with disdain and disassociate from them,\u201d the filing said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> New for @Livng_Church<\/a>: Acting ACNA primate Dobbs sues former chaplaincy bishop Derek Jones for defamation, accusing him of making repeated false statements about Dobbs' handling of two financial matters. https:\/\/t.co\/ZgxWlO73eE<\/a><\/p>— Arlie Coles (@ArlieColes) March 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>