Head of Episcopal church tells Fort Worth bishop he's no longer to act as a minister

The inevitable inhibition of Bishop Iker has been announced. From the Dallas Morning News.

The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, has fired the latest salvo in the battle with the Fort Worth diocese, ordering Bishop Jack Iker to stop functioning as an ordained minister.

That's probably fine with Iker, since his Fort Worth diocese voted just last week to have nothing further to do with the Episcopal Church.

Jefferts Schori's order, known as an "inhibition," says Iker "abandoned the Communion" of the Episcopal Church.

At Iker's urging, the Fort Worth diocese has voted to align itself with a conservative province of the Anglican Communion, one based in Argentina.

Iker holds that the Episcopal Church has drifted from the Bible's teachings by allowing women priests and an openly gay bishop.

He has said the Fort Worth diocese will function as before, though several congregations are staying with the Episcopal Church.

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