Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Today's Convention

Ann Does a good job but if the vote passes the forming of a new Standing Committee will not be "immediate".

Bishop Duncan, now a bishop-at-large of the Southern Cone, is a diocesan consultant. He will sit with other staff but will not lead worship or the business meeting, said Deacon Peter Frank, spokesman for the diocese. If the majority secede, they will give 30 days notice for another convention at which they are expected to re-elect Bishop Duncan, he said.

Meanwhile, the sole person on the eight-member Standing Committee known to oppose secession will become the default authority of a continuing Episcopal diocese. The Rev. James Simons, rector of St. Michael of the Valley in Ligonier, said he will immediately appoint at least two others to join him on the continuing Standing Committee and give 30 days notice for a diocesan convention to elect new leadership. But he believes the vote to secede could fail.

"I've talked to deputies [to the convention] who haven't wanted to be disrespectful to Bishop Duncan and have never said anything publicly. But they've confided to me that they can't vote for it a second time around," the Rev. Simons said.

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