Episcopal News Service - ENS issues official press releases on behalf of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Fort Worth Provisional Bishop Elected - Ted Gulick was unanimously elected provisional bishop of Fort Worth. Delegates reorganize the diocese and celebrate 'new life and new birth'. new

Presiding Bishop accepts Jack Iker's written resignation - "My decision to accept Bishop Iker's voluntary renunciation fits squarely within the canons."

Time For Healing - Communicants from Fort Worth are recognized, welcomed, and pictured in the newsletter at the conclusion of the recent Synod meeting of Province VII of the Episcopal Church.

Province VII Welcomes Guests - At their recent synod meeting, Province VII members welcomed four Episcopal guests from the Diocese of Fort Worth, although Bishop Iker illegally removed the Fort Worth Diocese from its Episcopal Province.

New Fort Worth Group To Aid in Reconstituting Episcopal Diocese - A new umbrella group has been formed that may assis The Episcopal Church in reconstituting the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. historic

The Ordination of Women Priests - How well has the ordination of women priests been received in the Anglican Communion?

Archbishop did not endorse Southern Cone's invitation - Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had not endorsed an invitation by Southern Cone Primate Gregory Venables to offer oversight to dioceses outside that province

Bishop Jack Iker’s Address to the Forward in Faith - Our plan is not only to disassociate, then, from The Episcopal Church, but to officially, constitutionally re-affiliate with an existing orthodox Province of the communion that does not ordain women to the priesthood. important

A report from the Joint Standing Committee - of the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates of the Anglican Communion has found that the Episcopal Church has "clarified all outstanding questions" relating to its response to the requests of the Windsor Report

'saddle up' - Bonnie Anderson, President of the House of Deputies, promises support to the Episcopalians For The Future conference in Fort Worth and tells Fort Worth Episcopalians to 'saddle up'

Bishop Jack Iker Speaks - By the end of this month, the House of Bishops will have decided the future direction of TEC, and as a result we too will have to declare our future as a diocese. I do not expect that TEC will comply with the requests of the Primates in their Dar es Salaam Communiqué. In that case, we will see further fraction and division in the Communion during the months ahead. We will then have to choose in favor of the Anglican Communion majority at the expense of our historic relationship with the General Convention Church.

A Great Schism - Read An Article featured in the Fort Worth Weekly on May 2, 2007 and subtitled: The fight between liberal and conservative Episcopalians comes to Cowtown

Reaction to: A Great Schism - Two letters to the editor concerning the Fort Worth Weekly article on the Episcopal Church, one pro and one con.

Bishops' 'Mind of the House' Resolutions - The Primates' Pastoral scheme is spiritually unsound. It violates our founding principles as The Episcopal Church.

Bonnie Anderson Issues Statement on Primates' Communiqué - The type of authority for the Primates implicit in the Communiqué would change not only the Episcopal Church but the essence of the Anglican Communion.

Sitting at the Lord's Table - A number of the Global South Primates have not shared in the Holy Eucharist today with their fellow primates.

Eight Virginia Churches Sever Episcopal Ties - Virginia Bishop, Peter Lee, has asked the leaders of these now Nigerian and Ugandan congregations occupying Episcopal churches to keep the spiritual needs of all concerned uppermost in their minds.

Our Decision Not To Consent - At its meeting of December 6, 2006, the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Bethlehem voted unanimously not to consent to the election of Mark Joseph Lawrence as bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina.

Bishops Develop Proposal - A group of bishops, including Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, has developed a proposal responding to "An Appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury" addressing what other petitioning bishops and dioceses have termed "alternative primatial oversight" or "alternative primatial relationship."

Bishop Iker says: "I find it unacceptable and unworkable in its present form" "We cannot accept a Primatial Vicar appointed by her and accountable to her..."

Consequences of Departure - You and I have undertaken solemn commitments and made binding promises to be good stewards and caretakers of the real and personal property of the Diocese of Virginia and of the Episcopal Church. Those are commitments we are obliged to keep no matter what our future church affiliation may be.

The principles reflected in the Church’s canon law as it relates to parish property have been enforced by many courts throughout the United States in cases involving hierarchical churches such as the Episcopal Church. Those cases include cases decided by Virginia courts.

Violation of your Ordination Vows - "I have seen reports of your letter to parishes in the Diocese of San Joaquin, which apparently urges delegates to your upcoming Diocesan Convention to take action to leave the Episcopal Church." The Presiding Bishop writes The Rt. Rev. John-David Schofield

Preparation to Leave the Episcopal Church - Are There Risks? Yes, of course. TEC is highly litigious and will likely file lawsuits in the California state courts seeking to take our property away.

Just Say No - Via Media group asks bishops, standing committees to refuse consent to South Carolina bishop-elect

Unwillingness to Abide by the Canons - ...choosing not to give consent might...demonstrate that The Episcopal Church is serious about who becomes a bishop and about the need to abide by church canons.

Selective Signatures on Kigali Communiqué - I wish to offer this clarification of the position of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, in light of the potentially misleading impression that our Province has endorsed the Communiqué issued at the end of the meeting. Whereas Canon Livingstone Ngewu and I were present in Kigali, neither of us were made aware even of the possibility of a communiqué in the name of the Primates of the Global South, prior to its release.

Church Property Giveaway - Plano parish, located in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, will pay a relatively small amount to leave the Episcopal Church and acquire property rights.

Canon Minns Election Appears to Violate Nigerian Canons - The election of an Episcopal priest as a missionary bishop to the United States by the Anglican Church of Nigeria appears to be in violation of a Nigerian canon which stipulates that eligible persons to the episcopate must belong either to the Church of Nigeria or a diocese in communion with it.

A Gospel of Intolerance - John Bryson Chane, Episcopal bishop of Washington writes the Post important

Christians kill Muslims - in Nigeria after a warning by Archbishop Akinola

The Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth - The annual convention was held at the diocesan center in facilities provided by All Saints' Episcopal School. What was missing?

Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible - "At a time while dissidents in The Episcopal Church and Primates of the third world are insisting on the literal "plain truth of Scripture", the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true."

A Forming Congregation Changes Its Mind - A missioner and forming congregation in the South Riding area of Virginia decide that perhaps it is not an Episcopal Church but a congregation under the auspices of Uganda Africa that they want.

Anglican Bishops Urge U.S. Church Split - "An international panel of Anglican archbishops called upon a gathering of their conservative American counterparts Friday to split from the rest of the U.S. Episcopal Church."

Latin-American and Caribbean Primates & Bishops - are calling on other provinces to join with them in developing a "Via media" position. "Our commitment will emphasize the renewal of respect to the plurality, diversity and inclusivity that have been a permanent sign of Anglicanism..."

About the "Leaked" Via Media USA Steering Committee Notes - The AAC and the Via Media Memo: Lots of Noise and Smoke, and Certainly Paranoia. important

Part II - Primate Akinola Writes Primate Eames - ...such irresponsible accusations are outrageous, uncharitable and untrue... I was astonished by your declaration that ECUSA and the Anglican Church of Canada have satisfied the requirements of the Windsor Report.

Part I - Primate Akinola upsets Primate Eames - As a Primate of the Anglican Communion I find the implications of this revision most serious. Am I alone in interpreting such wording as the removal of established bonds of communion and their replacement by a Provincial-only wide authority which will set its own criteria for whoever or whatever it considers worthy of a communion relationship?

Two Primates of Global South in Serious Disagreement - "It was with surprise that I read your letter regarding the non acceptance of subscriptions from the representatives of the Anglican Province of Brazil to participate in the the III Global South Encounter."

Bending Over Backwards - The Right Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard responds to a bizarre request for "adequate alternative episcopal oversight" in the Diocese of Florida." in Adobe Format

The Church of England Should be Suspended from the Anglican Communion? - Peter Akinola said: "I believe that the temporary suspension of the Church of England is the right course of action to take. The church will be subjected to the same procedures and discipline that America and Canada faced".

Will The Diocese of Fort Worth Bolt? - Bishop Jack Iker outlines a condition under which he will lead his flock out of the Episcopal Church.

ACC affirms Communion-wide listening process, members' voluntary withdrawal - The Anglican Consultative Council unanimously affirmed the "listening process" requested for the Anglican Communion since 1998. By a vote of 30 to 28 in a second resolution, the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada were asked to "voluntarily withdraw their members" from the ACC until the 2008 Lambeth Conference. Ironically, it was because of the voluntary withdrawl of participation of the US and Canada in this decision that the motion passed.

To Set Our Hope On Christ - In this 130 page report prepared for the Anglican Consultative Council, the Episcopal Church affirms its support for gay and lesbian clergy and urges other Anglican churches not to let the issue divide their worldwide communion.

"We believe that God has been opening our eyes to acts of God that we had not known how to see before." "Members of the Episcopal Church have discerned holiness in same-sex relationships."

Some Anglican conservatives say that the report makes a schism inevitable. >

Episcopal Bishop John Howard Calls for Reconciliation - Bishop John Howard and his recent diocesan convention call for an end to the sexuality dispute and want to be loyal members of both the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion.

The President of the AAC is Alarmed - "As the President of the American Anglican Council, I cannot even begin to convey the pain and upset and discouragement that Archbishop Carnley’s attributed remarks have caused already within the orthodox Episcopal and American Anglican community."

Primate Akinola announces his North American Franchise - The Convocation of Anglican Nigerian Churches in America will function as a ministry of the Church of Nigeria in America.

Primate Akinola Blasts House of Bishop's Covenant Statement - The only regret offered was for their failure to consult and the effect of their actions instead of an admission that what they have done has offended God and His Church. ECUSA has yet to grasp this reality and still appears to be chasing shadows. Until this is recognized there can be no hope of meaningful reconciliation.

They were out for blood - Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold identified by name six Episcopalians for having detrimentally influenced the course of the primates’ recent meeting in Northern Ireland

House of Bishops issues Covenant Statement - The Covenant Statement includes a provisional measure to contribute to a time for healing and for the educational process called for in the Windsor Report. Appended is a supportive endorsement by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Primates' Meeting communiqué - The Primates’ Meeting, February 2005 Communiqué

In Our Many Voices - Via Media USA alliance member organizations tell their stories. [pdf file format]

ECUSA bishops review Windsor Report - "We decided at our September meeting in 2004 to set aside this time so we might together begin to receive the Windsor Report with humility. We have met for a day and a half in Salt Lake City."

American Church Never Likely to Face Discipline - One of Anglicanism's most senior leaders has signalled that the American Church is never likely to face discipline for its decision to consecrate the Anglican Communion's first practising gay bishop.

The Windsor Report - The full text of the Windsor report can be found here.

Something That I Could Live With - In the end the Windsor report was something that I could live with or I wouldn't have agreed to the recommendations says Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, sole Canadian member of the Eames Commission"

Windsor Report On-Line - The full on-line text of the Windsor Report can be read by selecting topics at the left of the screen of the Anglican Communion Official Web Site."

The Eames Report will have teeth - The Most Reverend Robin Eames says, "The recommendations in the Report I will present next week has the support of all members of the Commission."

Lambeth Palace clarifies comment - Lambeth Palace has again clarified the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments on a network "intending to remain within ECUSA's structures" rather than competing with the Episcopal Church...

USA Episcopal Bishops Face Sanction - Liberal American bishops may face having their invitations to Anglican summits withdrawn by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, if they continue to defy the worldwide Church over homosexuality.

Statement from Anglican Provincial Secretaries' Conference - There was a shared recognition of the importance at this present time of seeking to find ways to maintain unity within the Communion.

USA Episcopal Church faces expulsion - THE Episcopal Church in the United States faces exclusion from the worldwide Anglican communion as punishment for ordaining a gay bishop, The Times has learnt.

Bishop Bruno Inhibits Breakaway - Four clergy have been inhibited from serving the two Southern California parishes that announced their intention August 17 to leave the Episcopal Church and join the Diocese of Luweero in the Anglican Province of Uganda.

Church remains open after Vestry leaves - A congregation with a decades-long history of conflict with four successive bishops has finally left the church

Robinson's letter to Redeemer Church - I might add, the Primate of Ireland and head of the Lambeth/Eames Commission and the Archbishop of Canterbury himself - wrote to tell me how generous they thought my proposal to you was.

Call for censure & recognition of alternative network - The Plano West conference in Long Beach, California, June 3-4, was co-hosted by chapters of the AAC. It alternately urged leaving the Episcopal Church USA and pressing the worldwide Anglican Communion to censure ECUSA.

A conversation with Archbishop Robin Eames - Archbishop Robin Eames of Ireland spoke to the annual dinner of the Church Club of New York. Eames chairs the Lambeth Commission on Communion, appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

African Primates not of One Mind - Our province is certainly not considering breaking communion with any other province says Archbishop Ndungane

Archbishop Robin Eames address - [ENS] On May 18, the Most Rev. Robert H.A. (Robin) Eames, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, addressed the 117th dinner of the Church Club of New York at the Harvard Club in New York City, addressing the crisis in the Anglican Communion.

Reconciliation Conference - Two Episcopal bishops, with opposing views on sexuality, to headline reconciliation conference

Suggestions for the Eames Commission - signed for and on behalf of the Global South Primates by the Most Revd Peter J. Akinola, Primate of All Nigeria.

Pittsburgh Bishop Urged to Uphold Canon Law - “In March, we saw confirmations by bishops of the Episcopal Church in circumstances unapproved by the bishop with jurisdiction. Now we see confirmations approved by the bishop with jurisdiction, but by a bishop not allowed by the canons ... of the Episcopal Church.”

Letter from the Primate of Brazil to the Most Revd Frank Griswold - This Brazilian Primate repudiates the canonical violations in Ohio and affirms respect for the decisions of the General Convention in Minneapolis.

Caring For All The Churches - A Response of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church to an expressed need of the Church

Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold writes Archbishop Eames - Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold has written a long letter to Archbishop Eames making a strong case for our church and for its actions.

Consecrations Violate Canon Law - Six defiant congregations joined Sunday, March 14, 2004 in a confirmation service led by bishops acting without permission from the Diocese of Ohio in violation of canon law.

Irregular confirmations in Ohio spark stern response from bishops - The canons of the Episcopal Church, as well as those of the councils of the undivided Christian Church--beginning with Nicaea in 325 A.D.--specify that no priest or bishop may perform sacramental acts in another diocese without prior permission of that diocese’s ecclesiastical authority.

A word to the Episcopal Church - It has been a little more than six years since my investiture as Presiding Bishop. Over these last days I have been asked frequently - both in gatherings of bishops, clergy and lay people, and by reporters - about my view of the "state of the church."