The Episcopal Church and its local diocese have pitched a settlement offer that would allow 35 parishes that defected in 2012 to take roughly $500 million in church properties with them in a bid to end the long-running ecclesiastical split that has reached the state Supreme Court.
The parishes haven’t formally responded, but a high-ranking cleric said the olive branch will not be accepted. “It was unanimously rejected by all the parties to the litigation,” the Rev. Jim Lewis said.
The offer to end a protracted legal battle would include some of Charleston’s most historic colonial parishes: St. Philip’s and St. Michael’s churches in downtown Charleston, Old St. Andrew’s in West Ashley and Christ Church in Mount Pleasant.
More here-
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150615/PC16/150619613/1180/episcopal-church-makes-settlement-offer-to-let-parishes-take-500-million-in-property
and here-
http://www.live5news.com/story/29323071/episcopal-church-offers-settlement-with-breakaway-group-over-property
and here-
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/news/54796-splinter-churches-refuse-offer-from-national-episcopal-church
and here-
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2015/06/15/breakaway-group-rejects-offer-to-settle-south-carolina-property-lawsuit/
and here-
http://www.moultrienews.com/article/20150615/MN01/150619851/1014/
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