[Magdalen] TECnical question

[Roger Stokes]

On 04/05/2015 17:49, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> From: Roger Stokes
>
>> Don'y forget that the part of the Church over which Katharine 
>> Jefferts-Schori has jurisdiction is closer to Scotland than it is to 
>> New York.  I refer, of course, to the Convocation of American 
>> Churches in Europe.
>
> In including all Episcopalians in South and Central America and 
> Europe, Louis Crew figured the center of gravity as somewhere in Ohio 
> IIRC.

My point is that the Presiding Bishop does not have direct jurisdiction 
anywhere other than in Europe.  Even if she had wanted to the PB could 
not have vetoed the election and consecration of a practising gay or 
lesbian bishop.  If the person is elected and a majority of bishops with 
jurisdication and of standing committees give their consent then 
arrangements have to be made for the consecration.

That is why when the Primates met and agreed a moratorium on the 
ordination of gay bishops and of seeking to destabilise other Provinces 
of the Anglican Communion the Presiding Bishop could only promise to use 
her best endeavours to that end.  The Primates of the Global South have 
more direct authority and could have used it to keep their side of the 
agreement.  Some chose not to and continued to sponsore breakaway groups 
in the USA.

Roger