Monday, March 9, 2009

Faith: U.S. Episcopal Church leader will visit Peoria


The presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church is scheduled to visit Peoria next month.

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori will open a special meeting of the Synod of the Diocese of Quincy, to be held April 4 at St. Paul's Cathedral. This will be the first time an Episcopal presiding bishop has visited the diocese, according to a diocese news release.

Schori called for the special meeting to elect new diocesan leadership.

Leaders of the diocese had voted late last year to leave the U.S. Episcopal Church and join the more conservative, Argentina-based Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. The U.S. church no longer recognizes the authority of the Quincy diocese's former leadership.

Schori also will preside over Palm Sunday services April 5 at All Saints Church in Moline. The church was formed last month by parishioners who didn't want to join the Southern Cone province.

http://www.pjstar.com/features/x1599167298/Faith-U-S-Episcopal-Church-leader-will-visit-Peoria

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