[Magdalen] Episcopal News Service highlights Episcopal Church in South Carolina

[Ginga Wilder]

Roger,
Thank you.  You have done your research well.  I so appreciate your
interest.

The Episcopal Diocese of SC (Mark Lawrence's church...the breakaway group)
did indeed get a restraining order in January 2013, preventing use of the
diocesan name (see what the Lawrence church calls itself) by the
Episcopalians, who were regrouping/reorganizing in special Convention at
the time.  So, we chose the name 'The Episcopal Church in SC (TECSC).  The
trial was held in July, 2014, and we may hear the decision early in
December.  The Episcopal Church and TECSC do not expect the decision to be
favorable for Episcopalians.

TECSC has 30 parishes and missions now, five of which became new missions
in the last year (two Conventions).

Ginga

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 27/11/2014 22:04, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> So there are two dioceses there also.
>>
>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>>
>
> There is what is termed the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina with Mark
> Lawrence as their bishop.  The latest state of court judgements is that
> they are entitled to retain use of that description, the diocesan shield,
> etc.  The other group is called the Episcopal Church in South Carolina.
> They are the group listed on the Episcopal Church's website.  If you browse
> that site by diocese you will come to
> http://www.episcopalchurch.org/diocese/south-carolina and their
> Provisional Bishop is Charles vonRosenberg.
>
> I know Ginga has to be very careful about what she writes and there are
> various orders in place barring the group who look to +Charles as their
> bishop and +Katharine as their Primate from doing anything that might
> suggest they are the real Diocese of South Carolina.  I tried to be careful
> in what I said when I was there but I am grateful to +Charles who, after
> consulting my own bishop, gave me permission to preside and preach at the
> Eucharist in Summerville as an expression of the Worldwide Anglican
> Communion.
>
> Roger
>