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Episcopal Bishop Ted Gulick, of Kentucky, has announced that he'll step down in 2010 after 16 years in office.

Parishioners and members of the public converged on St. John's Episcopal Church Friday afternoon for a dialogue on issues that seldom arise at regular worship services.

ishop Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire will be on the Duke University campus Oct. 6-7 and will lead two events that are open to the Durham community. Bishop Robinson's election and consecration has been at the center of the worldwide Anglican Communion's ongoing debate over the full inclusion of gay and lesbian people in the life and ministry of the church. He will lead two events on Monday, Oct. 6, both in Duke Chapel. From 12:20 p.m. to 1:20 p.m., Robinson will address the topic of preparing leaders for faithful ministry, including his thoughts about preparing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons for ministry. A reception will follow in Alumni Memorial Common Room at Duke Divinity School.

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During its meeting on September 23, the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh said that the diocese's previously scheduled October 4 convention would go forward.

Referring in a news release to what it called "the purported deposition" of Bishop Robert Duncan (pictured) September 18 by the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops, the members of the Standing Committee said the convention would be held in "an orderly and grace-filled manner." The Standing Committee is now the diocese’s Ecclesiastical Authority.

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Just last month, the director of the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations, Maureen Shea, called on President Bush to open an "interests section" - essentially, a pared down embassy - in Tehran, ...

Kosciusko attorney Beth Burton enjoys watercolor painting in her spare time. Her expertise has resulted in one of her works being selected for exhibition at "A Feast for the Eye," a juried show at St.

The battle over the fate of St. John's Episcopal Church in Jersey City is expected to reach a new level tonight, as the City Council is set to introduce an ordinance to confer landmark status on the ...

Lambeth Palace: On the eve of the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Millennium Development Goals in New York, the Archbishop of Canterbury has underlined the commitment of the Anglican Church to continue to work for the eradication of poverty. In a video message the Archbishop has backed calls for a renewal of the pledges made by the international community in 2000, and spoke of the need for the Anglican Church to work in harmony with governments and NGOs around the world in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Six Anglican bishops are shocked - shocked I tell you - that Bob Duncan (uncharacteristicaly pictured at far left) is now the former bishop of Pittsburgh, PA. Read all about this in Archbishop of Canterbury urged to create new province for US conservatives here at the London Times.

How shocking that a church led by a woman could act with such robust forcefulness!

How shocking that the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church could take such decisive action!

How shocking that those American Anglicans would try to preserve such an ancient notion as the geographical integrity of dioceses.

After all, doesn’t The Presiding Bishop know women are supposed to be weak, submissive?

Doesn’t she know women like her are supposed to obey the pronouncements of patriarchs like the former Bishop of Pittsburgh?

What is the Anglican Communion Coming to when men like Bop Duncan can be held to account by a woman?

It is enough to make the all male Apostles weep.

Perhaps the Archbishop of Canterbury should allow cross border intervention across the Anglican Communion. All of the Anglican Communion. Then, progressive Anglican Bishops could include in their dioceses affluent liberal congregations that are located in other diocese. Perhaps a parish in Tottiscliffe would like to join the Diocese of California. Or a congregation in Borough Green would like to be part of the Diocese of New Hampshire. Or the Church of All Saints in Alton would like to be in the Diocese of Washington, DC. LOTS MORE

Amid reaction to the removal of Episcopal Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh from ministry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church praised plans by some local Episcopalians to remain with the Episcopal Church even if the majority of the diocese votes to secede and join an Anglican province in South America. "Our understanding is that the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will not go away, even if the convention takes a canonically inappropriate vote to secede," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in a teleconference yesterday. The diocesan vote is scheduled for Oct. 4. When the U.S. bishops voted 88-35 Thursday to authorize Bishop Jefferts Schori to depose Bishop Duncan, the more theologically conservative Argentina-based Province of the Southern Cone made him a bishop-at-large. If the Pittsburgh diocese votes to secede into the Southern Cone, the secessionists are expected to re-elect him as their bishop. more

The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia announced today that the trial scheduled to begin October 6 will focus solely on the issue of which properties occupied by the CANA congregations are actually subject to their 57-9 petitions. Though loyal Episcopalians have expressed grave concerns about the validity and fairness of the voting procedures used by the CANA congregations, the Diocese will forego judicial review of that process to focus on those issues that will most effectively and quickly return Episcopalians to their church homes and result in the overturning of the 57-9 "Division Statute." The Diocese is preparing to mount a vigorous appeal that addresses the serious legal and religious questions and implications that have arisen from this unfortunate situation. The Diocese will explore fully every option available to restore constitutional and legal protections for all churches in Virginia. more

Through the efforts of Linda Dietrich, former M.A.T.S. director, and the Episcopal Church Women of the Lakeway Area, Morristown-Hamblen Central Services received a substantial grant last weekend.

In light of Thursday's vote to depose Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh from the ordained ministry of The Episcopal Church, the proposed changes to the Title IV disciplinary canons appear even more likely to ...

Leaders of the US Episcopal Church voted to defrock a bishop who has been a leader among dissidents opposed to the ascendancy of gays in the church and a critic of other issues involving liberal scriptural ...

The House of Bishops voted 88-35, with four abstentions, to remove Duncan on a charge of "abandonment of the communion of this church." Duncan, who led the Pittsburgh diocese for 11 years, is a leader in a ...

The Episcopal Church Women of All Saints Episcopal Church on Hilton Head Island will sponsor Art Expo! to benefit Alzheimer's Respite & Resource from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the church's Gordon Mann Hall.

September 10, 2008 Statement on Proposition Eight by the Episcopal Diocesan Bishops of California As Episcopal Bishops of California, we are moved to urge voters to vote "No" on Proposition Eight.

The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church says there will be a vote this week at a meeting of the national House of Bishops on whether to remove Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh ministry.