News of Pittsburgh's convention decision finally reaches Canada. Oh Canada !Both those who supported realignment and those who opposed it outlined plans before the convention was adjourned to deal with the implications of the vote.
“We understand that one member of the standing committee remains, and once he determines that he is indeed the sole remaining member, he will appoint others to join in the leadership of the diocese of Pittsburgh, in accordance with diocesan canons.”
Presiding (national) Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said, “As the ecclesiastical authority, the standing committee will set a schedule for the reconvening of the convention, electing members to fill offices, and eventually calling a bishop to serve in Pittsburgh.”
She said her office would “provide support and counsel to Pittsburgh, in service to the leadership of the ecclesiastical authority.”
That person, Rev. James Simons, rector of St. Michael’s of the Valley in Ligonier and chair of Across the Aisle, said after the votes that he would attempt to determine very soon the status of other standing committee members and then make the appointments Bishop Jefferts Schori described. He predicted a convention to elect an interim bishop would be held before the end of the year.
http://www.anglicanjournal.com/issues/2008/134/nov/09/article/diocese-of-pittsburgh-leaves-episcopal-church-realigns-with-southern-cone/
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