[Magdalen] Copes and Mitres Galore.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Good grief—I had no idea so many had left! It’s hard to imagine Lawrence would have attracted that many followers...

We’re in a similar position, vis a vis electing a diocesan, though money isn’t the issue. They showed a video address by Michael Curry during Convention last week in which he affirmed the decision to have an intentional interim period. For now our Suffragan, Susan Goff, is the Ecclesiastical Authority for the Diocese, and we have a new Assistant Bishop (I think that’s her title.) The election of a Diocesan won’t take place until the 2022 Convention, with consecration in 2023.

> On Nov 26, 2019, at 6:36 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Grace,
> I do not know the precise answer, but I think money is one reason.  I do
> know that the plan is to have a diocesan bishop in two years or less.  And,
> I sense - don't know for sure - the advice from 815 is to go slowly,
> building a firm foundation.
> 
> When Bishop Lawrence left The Episcopal Church, there were about 30,000
> members.  +/- 23,000 left with Lawrence.  The Episcopal congregations in
> South Carolina have made slow, steady growth since, but the diocesan
> coffers were bare after the schism.  Restoring the diocese to a smooth
> working order has taken time.  The litigation has taken money, but not
> nearly what the Lawrence church has spent.  We have been very careful not
> to waste money on that.
> 
> ETC.
> Ginga
> 
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 10:56 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>> 
>>