[Magdalen] Copes and Mitres Galore.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Ginga, why do you still have provisional bishops instead of a diocesan?

> On Nov 25, 2019, at 7:48 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> More and more the US 'anglicans' identify/have joined ACNA, the 'Anglican
> Church in North America'.  They even have their very own prayer book now.
> 
> Tomorrow morning, Judge Edgar Dickson will convene yet another court
> hearing in the slow moving process to return church properties to the
> Episcopal Diocese of SC.  John and I will attend this session and our
> priest associate is going with us.  J&I have made a commitment to be a
> presence in these 'go nowhere' hearings.  We expect nothing to move at
> all....I could be wrong, though.  The judge, IMNSHO, leans obviously with
> the Lawrence church.
> 
> Our 2nd provisional bishop, the Rt Rev Skip Adams, will leave us at the
> first of the year.  We have been blessed with two very fine provisional
> bishops - the Rt. Rev. Charles von Rosenberg was our first provisional.  I
> have heard the Standing Committee is very close to naming our next
> provisional.  I bid your prayers for The Episcopal Church in SC (DoSC).
> 
> Thanks,
> Ginga
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 6:20 PM Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> To be very clear: in both the Diocese of Fort Worth and the Diocese of
>> South Carolina, there is only one ordinary who is in communion with
>> Canterbury. The Anglicans in the US are not in the Anglican Communion. I
>> know it can be confusing because of the name they chose, but the Archbishop
>> of Canterbury doesn’t invite them to Lambeth.
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 3:50 PM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> The increasingly slick periodical of the Forward in Christ
>>> organizationcame this week, and there is a center spread showing the
>>> Consecrationof (a? the?) Bishop of Fort Worth.  I have never seen so many
>>> Anglicanbishops in one place before, and they must have possessed the
>>> majorhoard of brocade copes and miters for North America.
>>> 
>>> Goodness I am impressed, but though it is not stated definitively, this
>>> mustbe a "Continuing Anglican" Consecration.  What convinces me of
>>> thatsince no names are mentioned in the otherwise lavish spread., I note
>>> that itappears my former bishop, +Wantland, a Continuing Anglican,  is
>>> participating.
>>> 
>>> So are there two Eiscopal/Anglican Bishops of Fort Worth?  I know
>>> thatSouth Carolina has such a situation.
>>> 
>>> David Strang.
>>> 
>> --
>> Ann
>> 
>> The Rev. Ann Markle
>> Buffalo, NY
>> www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>>