From California-
The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin is undertaking a series of lawsuits against former parishes in an effort to reclaim property.
Two such lawsuits were filed last week, bringing the number to three. The defendants are St. Francis Church in Turlock, St. Columba in Fresno and St. Michael’s in Ridgecrest.
A diocese representative says St. James Anglican Church on Snell Street in Sonora — popularly known as the Red Church — could be targeted also.
“We have begun filing,” said the Rt. Rev. Jerry Lamb, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin. “Sometime in the near future, we will file against all nine of the incorporated parishes, including St. James in Sonora.”
The recent lawsuits are among many more being filed against former Episcopalian parishes that left the Episcopal Church of the United States of America in 2007 to join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America.
The shift in emphasis to self-incorporated parishes is a new prong in litigation meant to return the property of those parishes that left the Episcopal Church, said Father Bill Gandenberger of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin.
“The original suit was against the bishop because he is corporation sole, and the Episcopalian Church could get to most of the churches by suing him,” Gandenberger said. “The other churches are not directly under his ownership, and that’s why they filed suit. They’re following the same game plan. It was an expected action.”
Corporation sole is the idea that all of the property in a diocese — a group of churches that is part of a federation of such groups which comprises the Episcopal Church of the United States — belongs to the bishop.
The bishop Gandenberger refers to is Bishop John David Schofield, who led parishioners who felt increasingly alienated by the Episcopal Church to join instead with the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.
More here-
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2010032399493/News/Local-News/Episcopalians-file-suits-to-regain-property
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